On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 00:17 +0100, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > El Domingo, 11 de Marzo de 2007 00:06, Ric Moore escribió: > > On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 13:53 +0100, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > > > El Sábado, 10 de Marzo de 2007 13:48, KP escribió: > > > > > KP wrote: > > > > >>> KP a écrit : > > > > >>>> Hi > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> On my fedora 5 box, I want to enable personal homepage to all of > > > > >>>> my users. Can any1 guide me please. > > > > >>> > > > > >>> in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, see this section: > > > > >>> > > > > >>> <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 don't forget to restart service httpd !! > > > > >> > > > > >> I did as you redirected. But still no directories created for the > > > > >> users i creat. Do I need to creat the directories manually?? > > > > > > > > > > yes or you could modify etc/skel - which would only work for new > > > > > users, not preexisting ones though > > > > > > > > Hey Thanx, its working now. But when I send request from my webbroser > > > > its throws the error "403, Forbidden" ???? > > > > > > > > KP > > > > > > That's a very common problem check your /home/user/ perms and make sure > > > the apache users o whoever you run apache with is able to read the whole > > > PATH , not only the /home/user/public_html/ > > > > Maybe it's barfing when the user doesn't have an index.html page in > > their directory? Permissions need to be set too, wouldn't they? Ric > > > > You totally hit the nail on the head :) > But, what if by default apache has been configured to list all the directories > and files if there's no index.html inside public_html ? The 403 error will be > still there, so if you set up perms to 711 to /home/user/public_html and > there's no index, you will find the typical: > Index of /~foo > > Icon Name Last modified Size Description[DIR] Parent > Directory - A blank index.html could be copied to /etc/skel/public_html for new users, with all the correct perms, you hit it on the head too!! <grins> Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================