httpd newbie / access denied, no permission to ~userid

[Michael D. Setzer II]

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On 15 Aug 2005 at 8:37, Joel Smith wrote:

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Subject:        	httpd newbie / access denied, no permission to ~userid
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> I am running Fedora Core 4, httpd-2.0.54.
> 
> When I try to access http://localhost/~userid/index.html I get
> 
> Forbidden
> 
> You don't have permission to access /~userid on this server.
> 
> Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to
> use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. 
> 
> the permissions for /home/userid and /home/userid/public_html are
> drwxr-xr-x, the permission for /home/userid/public_html/index.html is
> -rw-rw-r-- ...  
> 
> I changed the mod_userdir.c section in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to :
> 
> <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
>     #
>     # UserDir is disabled by default since it can confirm the presence
>     # of a username on the system (depending on home directory
>     # permissions).
>     #
>     #UserDir disable
> 
>     #
>     # To enable requests to /~user/ to serve the user's public_html
>     # directory, remove the "UserDir disable" line above, and uncomment
>     # the following line instead:
>     # 
>     UserDir public_html
> 
> </IfModule>
> 
> and then I use the next section which was originally commented out.  
> 
> #
> # Control access to UserDir directories.  The following is an example
> # for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
> #
> <Directory /home/*/public_html>
>     AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
>     Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
>     <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
>         Order allow,deny
>         Allow from all
>     </Limit>
>     <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
>         Order deny,allow
>         Deny from all
>     </LimitExcept>
> </Directory>
> 
> all other parts of httpd.conf were left as is...  
> 
> That's about all I know about httpd and it doesn't work..  How do I get
> access to view the html pages in /home/userid/public_html ???  
> 
> In the error logs it reports:  
> [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /~userid denied
> 
> it also seems to be looking for a favicon.ico
> 
> File does not exist:  [client 127.0.0.1] File does not
> exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  
> 
> 
> -- 
 What are the permissions of the /home directory. 

Check if it is a SELinux problem.
system-config-securitylevel
disable the SELinux, and see it it then works.
If yes, it is a SELinux problem. 
Re-enable it, and check the httpd settings, one regards to access of 
user home directories. 

I seem to recall that the change didn't work after I did it, but then 
after a reboot it did. 



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