Topic: User's Webspace

[lophas]

I'd like to set userdir to enable users' webspace i.e. http://mydomain/~user.
I followed exactly the detailed instructions described at
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=9835.msg37288#msg37288
but always get 403 Forbidden message. I tried all chown and chmod settings (I believe user:shared should be correct) but no success. Request even doesn't appear in error_log, appears only in access_log.

Please help!

[lophas]

PLEASE HELP!

[Damien Curtain]

Your problem is directory permissions.

You need execute access for everyone (o+x) on the directories leading to the UserDir.

ie. /home/e-smith/files/users/person/home/public_html must be accessable. ie have at least -rwx--x--x permissions on all of those dirs, not just the public_html dir.

One problem youll come to is if your using samba to create the webpages etc, it uses set create permissions for files and directories, see /etc/smb.conf for these.
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 Damien