File Permissions

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On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Tim wrote:
> We have three basic permission groups:  Owner, a group,
> and other.  As far as HTTP serving is concerned, it's
> "other" people accessing the files.  Those permissions
> apply to them, they should only get read access.
>
> Of course this means some work is involved in writing new
> files to the webserver.  One can make the HTML directory
> owned by the author, if you trust them not to make
> mistakes.  You can create user-owned sub-directories in
> it.  You can create files in your homespace, and serve
> them from there, or copy them to the HTML directory. 
> Probably a sensible solution is to make a new webauthors
> group, and let them own the HTML directory with rwx
> permissions.

What is the proper method for setting up httpd on the local 
box to read files in a /home directory when the root 
directory for httpd is in /var/www/html I have not been 
able to figure this out so I gave up trying to figure it 
out.