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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USERDIR problem with apache on new install
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:30:34
Message-Id: yu9vcewrb75.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] USERDIR problem with apache on new install by Michael Hampicke
1 On Sat, Sep 29 2012, Michael Hampicke wrote:
2
3 > Am 29.09.2012 17:08, schrieb Allan Gottlieb:
4 >> On my new install USERDIR is not working.
5 >>
6 >> When I try http://localhost/~gottlieb, firefox says
7 >> "you don't have permission to access /~gottlieb"
8 >> and the apache error log says
9 >> "client denied by server configuration: /local/allan/gottlieb/public_html"
10 >>
11 >> The file permissions are ok since both
12 >> file:///home/gottlieb/public_html/index.html and
13 >> file:///home/gottlieb/public_html
14 >> work fine.
15 >>
16 >
17 > I am sure your user has access to the files - thus allowing you to
18 > browse them locally (file:///) - but does apache (more precisely the
19 > systems user 'apache') have access to this files?
20 >
21 > Have you tried this:
22 >
23 > # sudu -u apache cat /home/gottlieb/public_html/index.html
24
25 I just did and the file appears on the screen.
26 Also I checked the permissions of
27 / /home /home/gottlieb /home/gottlieb and /home/gottlieb/public_html
28
29 newlap local # ls -ld / /home /home/gottlieb
30 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Sep 27 23:47 /
31 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 24 13:58 /home
32 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 24 13:58 /home/gottlieb -> /local/allan/gottlieb
33 newlap local # ls -ld /local/allan/gottlieb /local/allan/gottlieb/public_html/
34 drwxr-xr-x 41 gottlieb gottlieb 4096 Sep 29 12:42 /local/allan/gottlieb
35 drwxr-xr-x 23 gottlieb gottlieb 4096 Sep 24 14:29 /local/allan/gottlieb/public_html/
36 newlap local #
37
38 I'm still looking. Let me know if you think of something else.
39
40 thanks,
41 allan