Re: Permissions for public_html folder?

Subject: Re: Permissions for public_html folder?
From: Dennis Murphy (dmurphy@leguin.montclair.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 05:57:33 MST

You need to set x (execute) permissions for both your home directory and
public_html directory. All html & graphic files, etc. need read permissions
(644 should do).

i.e.

chmod 755 ~resander ~resander/public_html
chmod 644 ~resander/public_html/*htm* 

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  Dennis Murphy
  Montclair State University
  College of Science & Mathematics
  SCInet Support & Development Group
  dmurphy@leguin.montclair.edu
  (973)655-5414

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Reid Anderson wrote:

> 
> I am trying to set up a public_html folder on the Linux server here at
> Hamilton, and I have the folder set up, and have all the files there, and
> have done the following lines:
> 
> chmod go+r public_html
> chmod go+r ~resander
> chmod go+r public_html/default.html
> 
> These all go OK, but then when I try to access the site through Netscape (or
> any browser for that matter) I get:
> 
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /~resander/ on this server.
> Apache/1.3.11 Server at www.cs.hamilton.edu Port 80
> 
> 
> I would simply consult my linux reference text, but I lent it to a friend
> for a cs assignment! This isn't urgent or anything, but I would like to
> figure this out. This is only a mirror of our site http://g4.hamilton.edu/
> which is running on my Mac G4 500 with OS 9. It's fast, really fast! I
> turned the G3/300 into a Linux box, but only temporarily until my sister
> decides to stake claim to it.  I would like to also have this site running
> up on that server! That makes one copy on my G4, one on the CS server, one
> on the G3, and one on the students web server.  That's 4 copies of the same
> site running and if you look at the site, it's not at all necessary, but we
> did it just for kicks! Check it out and please feel free to give feedback!
> It's only in it's very beginnings, but all the framework and some of the
> data is there. 
> 
> http://g4.hamilton.edu/
> 
> 
> Thanks!
>     Reid
>

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