apache problem

[Jerry Feldman]

On 11/26/2010 07:36 PM, j. daniel moylan wrote:
> dan kressin writes:
>> --- On Wed, 11/24/10, j. daniel moylan-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org <j. daniel moylan at yah=
oo.com> wrote:
>>> did this -- unfortunately, same result -- restarted htppd,
>>> then rebooted -- no change.
>>>
>>>   Options MultiViews Indexes FollowSymLinks
>>> IncludesNoExec
>> What are the permissions on the dir/file the symlink points
>> to?  What error do you see in the browser?  Is there
>> anything in the Apache access and/or error logs?
>> (/var/log/httpd/{access,error}.log, typically)
> ha!!  my bad -- the sym links pointed to stuff in my home
> directory, and though all my directory permissions were
> fine, i hadn't noticed that /home itself was set to 700
> (new operating system installation)!  i changed that to
> 755 and all is well.
This is standard. In a multi-user system, you want peoples' home
directories to be rww owner with no perms for anyone else.

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