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[users@httpd] New Directory Issue

All,

Thanks in advance for any answer to this very newbie type of question.

I have a server running Apache v. 2.0.52 and using all virtual 
directories.  The virtual directories are under the users home directory 
as such: /home/username/www

The issue that I having is that when a new directory is created by the 
user under the 'www' it gives a 403 Forbidden error.

The virtual directory directive is like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.xxxxxxxxx.cim
    DocumentRoot /home/username/www
    <Directory "/home/username/www">
        AllowOverride All
        Options All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Scott


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Re: [users@httpd] New Directory Issue

Posted by Scott Hughes <sc...@renshawauto.com>.
I did use the userdir directive.  Now if I access the area like this: 
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~username/usage/  it does display the content.  
If I try to use the more direct: http:www.domainname.com/usage  I get 
the forbidden error again.

Thanks,

Scott


Craig Dunigan wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Scott Hughes wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any answer to this very newbie type of question.
>>
>> I have a server running Apache v. 2.0.52 and using all virtual 
>> directories. The virtual directories are under the users home 
>> directory as such: /home/username/www
>>
>> The issue that I having is that when a new directory is created by 
>> the user under the 'www' it gives a 403 Forbidden error.
>>
>> The virtual directory directive is like this:
>>
>> <VirtualHost *:80>
>>   ServerName www.xxxxxxxxx.cim
>>   DocumentRoot /home/username/www
>>   <Directory "/home/username/www">
>>       AllowOverride All
>>       Options All
>>   </Directory>
>> </VirtualHost>
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
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>
> It's very likely that the Apache user does not have permissions to the 
> newly created directories.  See:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/faq/error.html#error.permissiondenied
>
> and
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/public_html.html, which details 
> what you probably should be using instead of the scheme you now have.
>
> Here's a hint in case you don't want to use UserDir:  "man umask."  Be 
> careful, though, this can have unintended consequences!
>


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Re: [users@httpd] New Directory Issue

Posted by Craig Dunigan <cd...@doit.wisc.edu>.
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Scott Hughes wrote:

> All,
>
> Thanks in advance for any answer to this very newbie type of question.
>
> I have a server running Apache v. 2.0.52 and using all virtual directories. 
> The virtual directories are under the users home directory as such: 
> /home/username/www
>
> The issue that I having is that when a new directory is created by the user 
> under the 'www' it gives a 403 Forbidden error.
>
> The virtual directory directive is like this:
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>   ServerName www.xxxxxxxxx.cim
>   DocumentRoot /home/username/www
>   <Directory "/home/username/www">
>       AllowOverride All
>       Options All
>   </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Scott
>
>
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It's very likely that the Apache user does not have permissions to the 
newly created directories.  See:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/faq/error.html#error.permissiondenied

and

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/public_html.html, which details 
what you probably should be using instead of the scheme you now have.

Here's a hint in case you don't want to use UserDir:  "man umask."  Be 
careful, though, this can have unintended consequences!

-- 
Craig Dunigan
IS Technical Services Specialist
Middleware - EIS - DoIT
University of Wisconsin, Madison

opinions expressed are my own, not the University's

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