Re: [gentoo-user] USERDIR problem with apache on new install

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

On Sat, Sep 29 2012, Michael Hampicke wrote:

> 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

I just did and the file appears on the screen.
Also I checked the permissions of
/ /home /home/gottlieb /home/gottlieb and /home/gottlieb/public_html

newlap local # ls -ld / /home /home/gottlieb
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Sep 27 23:47 /
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Sep 24 13:58 /home
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   21 Sep 24 13:58 /home/gottlieb -> /local/allan/gottlieb
newlap local # ls -ld /local/allan/gottlieb /local/allan/gottlieb/public_html/
drwxr-xr-x 41 gottlieb gottlieb 4096 Sep 29 12:42 /local/allan/gottlieb
drwxr-xr-x 23 gottlieb gottlieb 4096 Sep 24 14:29 /local/allan/gottlieb/public_html/
newlap local # 

I'm still looking.  Let me know if you think of something else.

thanks,
allan