Re: Permissions for public_html folder?


Subject: Re: Permissions for public_html folder?
From: Robert Fout (rfout@damien.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 09:53:30 MST


if you don't have an HTML file called index.html in your public_html folder
(that's the default file httpd will serve when someone requests the
/~<username> folder, and not a specific file, like /~<username>/test.html),
all you'll get is a listing of the folder.

Bob
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> From: Reid Anderson <resander@cs.hamilton.edu>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 11:37:27 -0500
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Subject: Re: Permissions for public_html folder?
>
>
>
> OK, I did exactly as you said, and now when I try to access through a
> browser, I simply get a listing of files and folders in that directory. Any
> hints?
>
>
> on 3/7/00 7:57 AM, Dennis Murphy at dmurphy@leguin.montclair.edu wrote:
>
>> 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*
>>
>> ---
>> 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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