[Charlug] Help with Fedora Core problem

[Joe Josey]

Dennis came to last Saturday's meeting and needs help with a Fedora Core 
6 installation.
Please read the following and reply direct to Dennis if you can help 
your fellow CharLUG member.
Thanks

Dennis Shearin wrote:
Hello Joe,
It good to meet you at the CharLUG meeting the other day. I'm going to 
try to make more meetings, but Sat. mornings are generally not that good 
for me.
Thanks for your offer to help with my new Fedora setup.
What I'm trying to do is very common and theoretically easy - but I 
can't get it to work.
I'm trying to set up a basic "shared host" which somewhat mirrors the 
Linux servers I access via the net. Each new user gets their own space 
(i.e., /home/username). This part is working. Each of those users should 
automatically be able to access that space (i.e., chroot) via SSH and 
FTP. Neither of those work at all.
They should also be able to place web pages in their own web directory 
(i.e., /home/username/public_html) and these pages should be accessible 
from a browser by going to http://hostname/~username. I was working on 
this tonight. It looks like it's *almost* working. It looks like it is 
going to the right directory. I don't get a 404 error. Instead I get a 
403 - Forbidden.
I've looked up some documentation and verified that the permissions are 
all set correctly. I couldn't find any info on what the ownership should 
be, but I think that's not important if the permissions are right. At 
any rate, I've set the ownership for the public_html directory and 
everything in it to be username:apache. I think that should work.

I can send you copies of the conf files if you want.
Right now, I want to get the web server working right (by the way, it 
works fine for the main web directory). Then I need to have FTP working 
(I installed ProFTP). SSH is not as much of an issue as I managed to get 
VNC working and can always open a terminal from Gnome.
TIA,
Dennis

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