[Charlug] Help with Fedora Core problem

[Jason Edgecombe]

Joe Josey wrote:
> 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
>
Hi There,

chmod a+rx /home
chmod a+x /home/user
chmod a+rx /home/user/public_html

If you have selinux enabled then you also need to enable homedirs with 
"setsebool" and set the proper selinux permissions on the folder.

Jason