Re: OT: Accessing users' pages on Apache

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Jason Wojciechowski wrote:

> Hello Kent,
>
> On Sep 13, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
>
> |      * User directories are enabled, and user documents will be looked
> |        for in the public_html directory of the users' homes. These dirs
>                           ^^^^
> |        should be under /home, and users will not be able to symlink to
> |        files they don't own.
> | 
> | 
> |  So I created the directory "/home/westk/public_directory"
>                                                  ^^^^^^^^^
>
> There's a typo here.  If you actually created the directory called that,
> then no wonder it doesn't work :)  If the directory is correctly named
> and this is an email typo, then I have no idea.
>
> -Jason
>
>  
And nate wrote:


> that should be public_html not public_directory(unless you changed
> httpd.conf. also be sure that apache has read access, which is
> usually default, but if your more strict with security you may
> need to:
>
> chmod o+rx /home/westk /home/westk/public_html
>
> so apache can access it. also all files in public_html need to
> be readable by apache as well(again this is the default..)


Yeah, it's a typo in the email. The directory is actually 
/home/westk/public_html, as written (correctly) earlier in the email. 
And the permissions are:

westk03[westk]:/home/westk> ls -ld public_html/
drwxr-xr-x    2 westk    westk        1024 Sep 13 01:32 public_html/

westk03[westk]:/home/westk> ls -l public_html/
total 9
-rw-r--r--    1 westk    westk        8647 Sep 13 00:42 index.html