From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 19:22:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A8E1065693 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:22:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout027.mac.com (asmtpout027.mac.com [17.148.16.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D8148FC12 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:22:04 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp027.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KY100MZYXSHWL20@asmtp027.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:59 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1002180147 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4B7D90BC.10901@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:53 -0800 Message-id: References: <4B7D90BC.10901@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> To: Programmer In Training X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:22:05 -0000 Hi-- On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Programmer In Training wrote: > Am I just having a case of the stupids here? It has been a few years > since I've managed Apache even for local testing. I've also adjusted the > permissions for that directory with no change. Also, the log files show > Apache going to /home/*/public_html instead of /usr/home/*/public_html, > basically ignoring the settings I gave it. Apache is going to look up the home directories specified in /etc/passwd via getpwent() or similar. If allowed, it would chase a symlink from /home to under /usr/home, but SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is likely to matter here. You should be getting more useful information in the Apache error log...perhaps /var/log/httpd-error.log, depending on whether you used the Apache from ports or rolled your own. Regards, -- -Chuck