User dir public html does not work. Permission denied

[thusi02]

Hello All,

I have just installed Red Hat ES4 with RH's distribution of apache. Default install and enabled the userdir and the public_html dir. The following is my configuration for httpd.conf:

<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 enable all

#
# 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>
#
# 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 All
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec ExecCGI
</Directory>

Why am I getting Permission denied (403 error) when trying to go to [domain...]

Any help?

Cheers,
Thusi
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[edited by: jdMorgan at 6:48 pm (utc) on Aug. 25, 2006]
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[encyclo]

In the above example you still have the

UserDir enable

line commented out. I believe that usually you have to either set it for

enable all

(if it is for every user) or you need to enable for a specific list of usernames. See:

[httpd.apache.org...]

(Also note the security tips on that page for disabling the user directory for the root account.)