From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 21:59:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.beastie.net (cr13646-a.lngly1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.138.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA9E14CCD for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 21:59:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beastie@beastie.net) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (helo=Beastie) by www.beastie.net with smtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12CG28-0002Cg-00 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 21:57:56 -0800 Message-ID: <002401bf6567$137f2600$0201a8c0@uniserve.com> From: "David Fuchs" To: References: <001c01bf6566$b0909c40$0201a8c0@uniserve.com> Subject: Re: help with apache, and public_html directory Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 21:59:57 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Clarification: --snip-- I use "chmod 711" to set permissions so that users can snoop in each other's directories. --snip-- I meant "can't"... not "can"... :) -David Fuchs ----- Original Message ----- From: David Fuchs To: Freebsd Questions Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 9:57 PM Subject: Re: help with apache, and public_html directory > In your httpd.conf file, you should see something like this: > > --------- > # UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home > # directory if a ~user request is received. > # > UserDir public_html > --------- > > If you want to allow users to have their own pages, just have them create > the directory "public_html" in their home directory. To view the content on > the net, simply have them open a browser and set their address to > http://your.domain-or-ip.here/~username . Make sure you use the ~ symbol > in before the username, or it won't work. > > You can change the UserDir setting in httpd.conf to whatever you want, and > then have your users create a subdirectory by that name in their home > directory. You will get forbidden messages and the like if you don't have > an index.html file in the directory or if the permissions are wrong, > rights/permissions MUST be executable (not necessarily readable) by all. > Example "chmod 755" will work, but so will "chmod 711". I use "chmod 711" > to set permissions so that users can snoop in each other's directories. > (Please don't argue about this people... I know some of you are probably > gettin' that warm and fuzzy "I think what you're doing is WRONG" feeling > already...) hahaha j/k =) > > Any more questions? Need more clarification? Send me a note and I'll get > back to you. > > -David Fuchs > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: James > To: Freebsd Questions > Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 9:17 PM > Subject: help with apache, and public_html directory > > > > Howdy, > > > > I'm new to bsd, and have just muddled through the installation of apache > on > > my machine here at home (its a 2.2.6 build, mostly set up by a friend), > and > > I would like to enable friends to view web pages on my machine - but I > have > > no idea how to set the directories so that they can be viewed.... > > > > Can someone tell me how to do this? - what are the default permissions to > > allow something to be viewed? - do I need a . file of some sort so that > > people can browse it or something? :-) > > > > Every attempt I've had so far has come across some form of 'you do not > have > > permission' message..... > > > > Any and all help would be gratefully recieved :-) > > > > regards > > > > james > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message