From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 06:36:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4EC116A4DF for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 06:36:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from anon.securenym.net (anon.securenym.net [209.113.101.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E9F43D2B for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 06:36:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dincht@securenym.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by anon.securenym.net (8.11.7/8.11.7) id hBAEX3K11115 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.filtered; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 08:33:03 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200312101433.hBAEX3K11115@anon.securenym.net> X-Securenym: dincht From: "C. Ulrich" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3FD643DC.9070800@magidesign.com> References: <3FD643DC.9070800@magidesign.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: The Peter Jennings Fan Club Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:31:53 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Apache X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:36:23 -0000 [Forgot to CC the list.] On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:51, Payne wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks, yes FreeBSD rocks!!! I know this is the right place to ask, so > if you have the apache group list that would be nice, but what do I have > to do to get my users account to work? Are they place for example > > /home/user_x/public_html > > On any web browser I get the following error. > > Forbidden > > You don't have permission to access /~user_x/ on this server. > > On my linux server this is already turn on so I am little lost. > > Payne See the suggestions offered in the other replies, but also remember that the user's ~/public_html directory has to be readable by the user running the apache process (typically 'www'). Many people on a multi-user machine do "chmod 700 ~" to keep others from snooping around in their home directory, but this also keeps apache from being able to read the web pages in ~/public_html. Charles Ulrich -- http://bityard.net