newbie: allowing access to a user home directory

Hi,

I've set up apache 2.0.48 with htdocs as document root. Now I want to
also allow access to one of the user directories (i.e.,
http://.../~username) (not all of them, only a specific one). I tried to
do this in the httpd.conf file:

UserDir public_html

<Directory /.../someuser/public_html>
AllowOverride none
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
Otder deny,allow
Deny from all
</LimitExcept>
</Directory>

This is taken from the httpd.conf example, I just changed AllowOverride
and the directory path, and it should give me read-only access to
http://.../~someuser. However, when I try it out, the server says
forbidden. Did I miss something?

Thanks!
luph

lupher cypher <lupher.cypher@verizon.net> wrote:
> http://.../~someuser. However, when I try it out, the server says
> forbidden. Did I miss something?

The directory need to be world-readable and world-searchable, also
all the files in it need to be world-readable. Check the error log
of your Apache.

Davide

Davide Bianchi wrote:
>
>>http://.../~someuser. However, when I try it out, the server says
>>forbidden. Did I miss something?
>
>
> The directory need to be world-readable and world-searchable, also
> all the files in it need to be world-readable. Check the error log
> of your Apache.

Thanks! That was the problem, I didn't know that every directory in the
path has to have that permission. It works now :)

luph