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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USERDIR problem with apache on new install
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Am 29.09.2012 17:08, schrieb Allan Gottlieb:
> On my new install USERDIR is not working.
> 
> When I try http://localhost/~gottlieb, firefox says
>   "you don't have permission to access /~gottlieb"
> and the apache error log says
>   "client denied by server configuration: /local/allan/gottlieb/public_html"
> 
> The file permissions are ok since both
>   file:///home/gottlieb/public_html/index.html and
>   file:///home/gottlieb/public_html
> work fine.
> 

I am sure your user has access to the files - thus allowing you to
browse them locally (file:///) - but does apache (more precisely the
systems user 'apache') have access to this files?

Have you tried this:

# sudu -u apache cat /home/gottlieb/public_html/index.html