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Date:      Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:28:15 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: permissions for www acting strangely
Message-ID:  <20071119132625.F47756@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <539c60b90711190935m4efdaf6ndecf5224271c24d1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <539c60b90711190935m4efdaf6ndecf5224271c24d1@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Steve Franks wrote:

> Few weeks ago, I installed apache22.  Just wanted to put up some
> family photos.  Whenever I tried to connect, got a "apache doesn't
> have permisson to acess ~/. on this system or somesuch".  The only way
> to get around it appeared to be a chmod 777 on my pic folder (no luck
> with 775!).  Now I restored some stuff from a backup over my photos,
> and now 777 won't work either.  Is there something fundamental about
> permissions I am totally missing?

Assuming you're talking about bare directory access (not HTML), have you 
uncommented this line in httpd.conf:

Include etc/apache22/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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