mod_userdir/3486: Unable to access users public_html directories

[Nigel Phillip <np...@hotmail.com>]

>Number:         3486
>Category:       mod_userdir
>Synopsis:       Unable to access users public_html directories
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec  3 13:10:00 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     nphillip@hotmail.com
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.3
>Environment:
OS: RedHat Linux 5.1
Compiler: gcc version 2.7.2.3
Uname -a output:
Linux rigel 2.0.34 #1 Fri May 8 16:05:57 EDT 1998 i686 unknown 
>Description:
I have compiled and installed Apache 1.3.3.
I have it up and running but i am unable to access
the public_html directories of users. Accessing the
DocumentRoot is no problem, just the users directory.

tail output of error_log
[Thu Dec  3 15:46:04 1998] [notice] Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) PHP/3.0.5 mod_perl/1.16 
configured -- resuming normal operations

tail output of access_log
127.0.0.1 - - [03/Dec/1998:15:46:45 -0500] "GET http://120.0.0.1/" 403 -
127.0.0.1 - - [03/Dec/1998:15:47:00 -0500] "GET http://199.219.186.30/" 403 -
199.219.186.30 - - [03/Dec/1998:15:48:49 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 1622
199.219.186.30 - - [03/Dec/1998:15:48:50 -0500] "GET /apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2326
199.219.186.30 - - [03/Dec/1998:15:49:06 -0500] "GET /~nigel HTTP/1.0" 403 283
199.219.186.30 - - [03/Dec/1998:15:49:16 -0500] "GET /~nigel/ HTTP/1.0" 403 284
199.219.186.30 - - [03/Dec/1998:16:01:36 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 148
199.219.186.30 - - [03/Dec/1998:16:01:45 -0500] "GET /~shem HTTP/1.0" 403 282
199.219.186.30 - - [03/Dec/1998:16:01:51 -0500] "GET /~nigel HTTP/1.0" 403 283
127.0.0.1 - - [03/Dec/1998:16:03:38 -0500] "GET /~nigel HTTP/1.0" 403 283
127.0.0.1 - - [03/Dec/1998:16:03:45 -0500] "GET /~shem HTTP/1.0" 403 282
127.0.0.1 - - [03/Dec/1998:16:03:57 -0500] "GET /~shem HTTP/1.0" 403 282
127.0.0.1 - - [03/Dec/1998:16:04:03 -0500] "GET /~nigel HTTP/1.0" 403 283
127.0.0.1 - - [03/Dec/1998:16:04:07 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 148
127.0.0.1 - - [03/Dec/1998:16:04:20 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 148
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>Fix:

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