Thanks for this info. This means that grant "execute" permission to owner, group, world. For a directory this is being able to list the contents of it. And since Apache (I believe) only needs to list the contents of /home/user to access /home/user/public_html, 711 should work fine. Thanks Shams -- "François Patte" <francois.patte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:45F2C616.3000309@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Shams a écrit : > Hi, > > The reabable and executable bits for the directories that apache > needs access to, in this case: > > chmod a+rx /home/user Better set the permissions like this: chmod 711 /home/user In that case, the /home/user directory is protected from reading by anybody, but web requests can go through and reach public_html directory > chmod a+rx /home/user/public_html > > Otherwise you will get the 403. > > Thanks > Shams > -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université René Descartes http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list