Re: [TCLUG:7400] public_html access

[Michael Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

> I'm doing some web development at home and I'm trying to use a public_html
> folder in my home directory. Whenever I try to access my page by typing
> this:
> 
> http://localhost/~wilson
> 
> I get an error saything that I don't have permission to access that
> directory. Since I'm trying to get at my own directory and since the same
> thing happens as root, I assuming that the problem lies in the Apache
> config. Anybody seen this before?

Your $HOME/public_html directory is probably not world-readable.  Apache usually
runs as user 'nobody'.  This is safer than running as root, but it means the
server can't read everything.

'chmod 644 $HOME $HOME/public_html' should do the trick..

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