Hey Wez,

Tried setting permissions to 777 for everything, still gives me the
permissions error..Do you think it has something to do with only stuff
originating in the /var/www/html folder being able to work correctly? I'm
stumped. Talk to you soon, thanks for the help though so far,

Chet



on 7/6/02 2:10 PM, Wesley Murphy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> In httpd.conf
> 
> Options SymLinks
> 
> let's you cross links on the filesystem via http, maybe it's not set up for
> the home directories
> 
> I'd go to /
> ls -l
> chmod 755 home
> to let everybody read/change to the home directory
> cd home
> chmod 755 * 
> to let everybody read/change to everyones home directory
> chmod 755 */site
> to let everybody read/change to everyones 'public_html' directory
> 
> 
> The alternative is to create a link from the users home directory to the first
> setup
> cd /home/user
> ln -s /var/www/html/site.com site.com
> 
> Ensure that 'user' is the owner of  /var/www/html/site.com
> 
> 
> Wez
> On Saturday 06 Jul 2002 5:56 pm, Chet Nichols wrote:
>> Hey,
>> 
>> For one of my virtual hosts, I made a symlink of the folder to
>> /var/www/html/site.com, used that path as the root directory for the site,
>> and it works perfectly. However, when I got rid of the link and change the
>> root directory to the actual location of /home/user/site.com/, it won't let
>> me get lists of files in folders (ie: when no index file exists), and it
>> just says "not enough permission"..it doesn't do it when I have a symlink,
>> so the permissions I have set now with the site must be okay. Does anyone
>> know whats wrong, or understand what I'm saying? Thanks in advance for the
>> help!
>> 
>> Chet
>> 
>> 
>> 
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