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Re: serving user's homes with apache



Daniel de los Reyes <dadecal@s2-selling.com> writes:

> Apache is enabled to server users home dirs by default.
> However if I place a file in public_html and point a browser to it I get a 
> permission denied error 

Apache runs with some special privileges, AFAIK as 'nobody'. So,
you've to make sure that /home/foo/public_html/bar.html is readable by
nobody; check that nobody is allowed to cd into all the directories in
the path.

	moritz
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