On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:34:35PM -0500, Jack Malone wrote:

Hi robert, thanks for the replies the other day on the apache help message. I had to do a complete install from scratch to get apache working like you did. it works here at work but not at home so I guess another install there. another question now do you know what I need to do to make say /home/jack/public_html readible now . i have gone an done a chmod o+x /home/jack an also chmod o+r /home/jack/public_html an still can not pull the page there from a windows machine. I can enter the ip address of hte suse box an get the default suse test info page. Am I doing something wrong here or what. I had this working once in the past an now I forgot what I did to make it work. thanks for any info.

Three things I can think of right now: First: You have might not have the permissions right. What you describe above looks like it should be OK, but check to make sure. Here is an ls -l of my directories:

ls -ld /home/robert drwxr-xr-x 54 robert users 4096 Jun 29 12:53 /home/robert/

ls -ld /home/robert/public_html drwxr-xr-x 12 robert users 4096 Jun 28 08:46 /home/robert/public_html/

ls -l /home/robert/public_html/index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 robert users 8801 Dec 31 18:31 /home/robert/public_html/index.html

Second, On SuSE, Apache is configured by default to not follow symbolic links. If /home or /home/jack etc. is a symbolic link it will not work. There is an option ("-FollowSymLinks") in httpd.conf that you can change to "+FollowSymLinks". Third: You might have messed up your httpd.conf. Compare with the one from your working setup. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen@texas.net