mod_userdir/4544: Accessing public-html directory under users

[Jeremy Douglas <da...@yahoo.com>]

>Number:         4544
>Category:       mod_userdir
>Synopsis:       Accessing public-html directory under users
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun  7 12:50:03 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     daralin@yahoo.com
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.6-7
>Environment:
Linux 6.0
>Description:
I am attepting to access the public_html directory in the user directory /home
My access.conf file currently has
<Directory />
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Options None
</Directory>

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

This should allow me to access my web site http://IP.Address/~user
But I am getting a 403 Forbidden web page with the error message 
"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~jeremy on this server. "

My UserDir is set to public_html.

I got my information on how to configure the access.conf from the Linux System 
Administration Handbook, Komarinski, Collett, page 207 and from the UserDir
documentation file that came with Apache.

I have not been able to find any help on newsgroups, could you tell me what my 
problem is.
>How-To-Repeat:
192.168.1.12/~jeremy
>Fix:

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