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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to enable ~username access to a Redhat
7.2 server running apache 1.3.12</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been reading the Charles Aulds book (Apache
web server admin) and the various on-line docs and I keep hitting a brick
wall.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've left the httpd.conf file set as the
default </FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>UserDir public_html</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And used the following from my Mandrake based
system that does work (and uncommented the example in the conf
file)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><Directory
/home/*/public_html><BR> AllowOverride
All<BR> Options MultiViews Indexes Includes
FollowSymLinks<BR> Order allow,deny<BR>
Allow from all<BR></Directory></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but whenever I try and access <A
href="http://site/~user/">http://site/~user/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I get:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>You don't have permission to access /~user on this server.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've set up /home/user/public_html with an
index.html in it (even if I specify ~user/index.html I get the same
error).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There doesn't appear to be any mentions in the logs
that it fails (I've tried setting log level to Debug).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Valid pages in /var/www/html get served and if I
use ~invalidname it gives a standard page not found error (and this is in the
log).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any one an Idea what I've forgotten to configure
(and how I can get the failure in the log)?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andy</FONT></DIV>
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