Apache User Directories (public_html)

Howdy,

I'm running Apache 1.3 on my SuSE 8.0 machine. Only thing I can seem to get working is the default /usr/local/httpd/htdocs directory. I cannot get the user public_html directories to work, nor can I get the cgi-bin/ to work. (PHP and SSI's do work tho. I'm learning PHP now :) )

Permissions are set. Do I need to add the users to a group of some sort?

From the httpd.conf:

Code:

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#
# UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.

# Note:
# The next three lines are commented out here. These directives and the access
# control section have been put into /etc/httpd/suse_public_html.conf.
# If the variable HTTPD_SEC_PUBLIC_HTML in /etc/sysconfig/apache
# is set to "yes" (default), SuSEconfig will include that file via
# /etc/httpd/suse_include.conf.
# Also note that for the /home/*/public_html directories to be browsable the
# executable flag must be set on the /home/* directories.

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so, HTTPD_SEC_PUBLIC_HTML is set to yes, and this is the /etc/httpd/suse_public_html.conf:

Code:

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<Ifmodule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</Ifmodule>

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
Options  indexes  includesNoExec  execCGI
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
Allow from all
</Directory>

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Not sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated!

Oh yeah, the user_dir mod is set up to run

Do you get a 403 or 404 error?

Well, I used to be able to view the user directories locally on the server...but after messing with it so much I get "Page Not Found" on any of my computers. :(

See if you get something in your error log.

Yes, post the error log and have you done a
ScriptAlias to your cgi-bin directory? and check the permission on the cgi
files as well, make them executable.

Yo´ll find the logs under /var/log/httpd/

Regards

Here's some log stuff for the cgi-bin/

Code:

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[Fri Jun 20 09:38:44 2003] [error] [client 24.166.41.248] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/count/count
[Fri Jun 20 09:38:44 2003] [error] [client 24.166.41.248] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/count/count
[Fri Jun 20 09:38:44 2003] [error] [client 24.166.41.248] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/count/count
[Fri Jun 20 09:39:00 2003] [error] [client 24.166.41.248] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/count/count
[Fri Jun 20 09:39:01 2003] [error] [client 24.166.41.248] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/count/count
[Fri Jun 20 09:39:03 2003] [error] [client 24.166.41.248] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/count/count
[Fri Jun 20 09:39:03 2003] [error] [client 24.166.41.248] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/count/count

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(that's my ip)
I guess something is messed up in httpd for the cgi. (Permissions are set as they should be.)

Quite a bit of this stuff too

Code:

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[Sat Jun 21 00:44:16 2003] [error] [client 24.166.15.239] File does not exist: /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/default.ida
[Sat Jun 21 00:53:29 2003] [error] [client 24.166.15.239] File does not exist: /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/default.ida

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and this:

Code:

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[Sat Jun 21 10:51:45 2003] [error] [client 24.156.47.186] File does not exist: /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/scripts/root.exe
[Sat Jun 21 10:51:54 2003] [error] [client 24.156.47.186] File does not exist: /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/MSADC/root.exe
[Sat Jun 21 10:52:01 2003] [error] [client 24.156.47.186] File does not exist: /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe
[Sat Jun 21 10:52:07 2003] [error] [client 24.156.47.186] File does not exist: /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe
[Sat Jun 21 10:52:14 2003] [error] [client 24.156.47.186] File does not exist: /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/scripts/..%5c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe
[Sat Jun 21 10:52:24 2003] [error] [client 24.156.47.186] File does not exist: /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/_vti_bin/..%5c../..%5c../..%5c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe

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actually....there's a lot of the windows paths in the log....


But I don't see anything in the log about user directories not existing.

Could someone post their/example configuration for the public_html? Maybe there's one little thing messed up with mine.

Maybe even the entire http.conf I could use as a template?

The only relevant stuff for that in my apache config looks like this:

Code:

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#
# UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.
#
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    UserDir public_html
</IfModule>

#
# Control access to UserDir directories.  The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>
</Directory>

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ok, I'm a moron, the user dir will work if there's a / at the end of the user name, SOB!! hahahahaha

~user/