On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:59 +0530, Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
> 1. enable the UserDir entry: "UserDir enable"
> 
> 2. uncommment the next UserDIR line (and/or modify it for your
> choice): "UserDir public_html
> 
> 3.Set the SELinux boolean control "httpd_enable_homedirs" to "on" to
> allow apache to access the users "public_html" (or whatever you called
> it).
> 
Which are so that requests to your website *with* your username, will
server pages served from there.

i.e. http://localhost/~varuna would serve files
from /home/varuna/public_html/

Requests for just the hostname, still use the global server directory.

  i.e. http://localhost/ would serve files from /var/www/html

unless you've changed the DocumentRoot directive.

How did you set step 3 of your instructions?  I'm wondering whether it's
actually been applied.

> 4. Let the user create their "public_html" directory in their home
> directory, then use "chcon -t httpd_user_content_t public_html" to set
> the security label.
> 
> 5. Let the user set permission bits (chmod +rx public_html) on the
> directory.

And, do (almost) the same to the files inside your public_html directory
(you don't, normally, want the files executable).

> Before Doing the above I was not able to even start httpd.But now it
> starts and the problem now is I am getting a Forbidden page?From what
> I gather I think is that httpd is able to access
> /home/varuna/public_html/ But the Web Browser is not able to access
> the Home Directory contents, public_html contents to be exact

Other things to check for:  Go through your main httpd.conf file, and
any separate personal-user.conf files, if you have them.  There are file
access rules set inside Directory clauses for the main DocumentRoot and
personal home spaces.

With your errors, were you trying a default file, or requesting a
specific page?

e.g. http://localhost/~varuna/ or http://localhost/~varuna/test.html

You certainly are trying out all the bells and whistles, I hope you're
having fun.

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