Re: [SLE] Access to userdirs on Apache webserver

well if you want pub in /home/user why not just use the public_html which is already viewable no extra config needed, try it localhost/~username/ (/at the end necessary!) Brandon Caudle -------------- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) Larkhaven Golf Course Charlotte, NC "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." -- Henry Kissinger

From: Richard Bos To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Access to userdirs on Apache webserver Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:55:51 +0200

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Could someone who made access to userdirs possible, on a SuSE 7.1 system running Apache, please tell me how to do that? I have seen the pages

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to from apache.org, telling about this, but I find them mildly confusing, since they deal with setups that differ from the SuSE way of doing

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For instance, the SuSE Apache httpd.conf contains stuff that in the other setups are split into several different files. What I want is to make http access to /home/username/pub/ possible. Access to the actual /home/username/ directory should not be allowed, only to

Op dinsdag 21 augustus 2001 20:15, schreef je: linked things. the

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pub/ directory.

Apache needs to be able to read all directories before/above the pub directory. Which means in your case that the /home/username should have 755 permissions. If not it will never work! This is being subscribed somewhere in the apache manual (don't know where).

-- Richard Bos For those who have no home the journey is endless

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