[ILUG] Apache problem

[Rory Browne]

On 02/03/2011 01:36 PM, Brendan Minish wrote:
> On Which distro?
> Perhaps there's an additional access control system running such as
> Selinux?
>
> On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 13:23 +0000, Ger Hooton wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> I have configures Apache so the the server users can have their own web
>> pages like  http://www.server.ie/~<user>
>> It all works well for everyone except for just one user
>> In the log I see Permission denied: access to /~user denied
>> I have chmod -R 777 [yes, a very bad thing to do] the users home dir for
>> a short time, but that has not solved the problem.
>> Because this works for every other user, I think my Apache config is OK.
>> any ideas?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Gerard Hooton.
>> Department of Electrical&  Electronic Engineering
>> University College Cork.
>> College Road.
>> Cork.
>>
>> Tel: +353 21 4902296
>>

I'd check four things

1: Are there any dot files in the users html directory, or in any parent 
directory unique to that user. ( this would probably be the users home 
directory ). You'd be particularly interested in files beginning with '.ht'.

2: Is SELinux enabled - does disabling it temporarly fix the problem ( 
Thanks Brendan )?

3: If you su or sudo ( I'm assuming you have root ) to a shell owned by 
the apache user, can you navigate to the users home directory, and cat 
his/her index.html file? If you can't then it's probably permissions 
either unix rwx-style permissions or acls.

4: The error logs.

Rory