[TriLUG] apache mod_userdir, strange behavior

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

Check the error logs at /var/log/httpd/

Also look at the directory rights for /home and for the /home/<user_dir>. If the webserver is running as "apache", then you'll need to give that user rights to /home and /home/<user_dir>.

Jon

---- Shawn Hood <shawnlhood at gmail.com> wrote: 
> All,
> 
> I can browse to http://xyz/, where host xyz is a server running apache
> 2.0.52.  I have selinux disabled.  mod_userdir.so is loaded and
> configured to serve /home/flast directories, using the ~dir
> convention.  Machines on the network pull up http://xyz/ fine.  When
> people try to bring up http://xyz/~user, there is no sign of traffic
> from tcpdump, in access_log or error_log.  The browser just sits
> there.  No traffic seen in tcpdump.  I can browse to http://xyz/user
> just fine (though it's a 404).  Once the tilde is inserted, nothing!
> There are two other servers with nearly identical configurations not
> having this problem.  Any ideas before I really start breaking things
> 
> Shawn
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