On 24 March 2011 12:34, Stuart Bird <e_tect...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> This is now solved - thanks.
>

I had the exact same problem a couple of days ago, shame I didn't see your
question until you'd solved it yourself as I recognised the problem
immediately!


> # sudo chmod -R a+rX /home/stu/www/
> # sudo chmod a+rx /home/stu
>

What's the reason for the second command?

As it stands you've made all files in your home directory executable by
anyone, which is probably not what you wanted.

    sudo chmod -R a+rX /home/stu/www

.. should have been enough. And for that matter, so should:

    chmod -R a+rX /home/stu/www

.. as the files were presumably already owned by you so you shouldn't have
needed sudo to grant permissions to others.

Note I didn't include the trailing / - I think your first command probably
didn't give access to the www directory itself, just to files/directories
below it.

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