cannot get user directories to work (e.g. /~user)

[Will McDonald]

On 22/08/05, Chris W. Parker <cparker at swatgear.com> wrote:
> What I can't get working is my user directory, e.g.
> http://localhost/~cparker/
> 
> [cparker at server ~]$ all
> total 72
> drwx------  4 cparker apache  4096 Aug 21 21:26 ./

> [cparker at server ~]$ cd www
> [cparker at server ~/www]$ all
> total 40
> drwxr-xr-x   4 cparker cparker 4096 Aug 21 21:33 ./

The home root permissions are too strict I think. Try...

$ chmod 755 ~cparker

Restart/reload Apache and try it again.

Will.