On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Tim wrote: > We have three basic permission groups: Owner, a group, > and other. As far as HTTP serving is concerned, it's > "other" people accessing the files. Those permissions > apply to them, they should only get read access. > > Of course this means some work is involved in writing new > files to the webserver. One can make the HTML directory > owned by the author, if you trust them not to make > mistakes. You can create user-owned sub-directories in > it. You can create files in your homespace, and serve > them from there, or copy them to the HTML directory. > Probably a sensible solution is to make a new webauthors > group, and let them own the HTML directory with rwx > permissions. What is the proper method for setting up httpd on the local box to read files in a /home directory when the root directory for httpd is in /var/www/html I have not been able to figure this out so I gave up trying to figure it out.