httpd newbie / access denied, no permission to ~userid

[Tim]

Tim:

>> Owner permissions are one thing.  But setting something as world
>> readable ought to be treated just as you intended.


Paul Howarth wrote:

> You could take this argument further: any file with "world readable" 
> permissions should automatically be readable via the local web server 
> (an entry in httpd.conf should be made to allow it). After all, it's 
> world readable. Does that make sense?

Yes, and that was precisely the point I was arguing.  I'd made a file's
permissions so that it was available to everybody, so it should be...

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