Just a stylistic note, I'm a great believer in the "find" command, but
in this case I believe it is more readable to do something like this:

# First, make sure the home directory is traversable by all users
chmod a+x /home/somebody

# Then, make sure NO files are executable under /home/somebody/www
[equivalent to chmod -R 644 /home/somebody/www]
# *** side effect--this temporarily makes all directories
non-traversable, we'll fix that in a moment
chmod -R u=rw,go=r /home/somebody/www

# finally, re-enable directory traversal in /home/somebody/www and below
chmod -R a+X /home/somebody/www

For those not familiar, the symbolic "X" argument to chmod has the
following semantics: it will always make directories traversable. It
will make files executable if and only if at least one executable bit
was already set in the file's permissions.

--Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Wigg [mailto:phil@(protected)]
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:48 AM
To: users@(protected)
Subject: Re: [users@(protected)

On 4 February 2010 14:34, Perl Whore <whoreperl@(protected):
> I'm still getting the permission error.
>
> [Thu Feb 04 06:47:11 2010] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] (13)Permission
> denied: access to / denied
> [Thu Feb 04 07:29:05 2010] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] (13)Permission
> denied: access to /test.htm denied
> [Thu Feb 04 07:29:08 2010] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] (13)Permission
> denied: access to /favicon.ico denied

The following should work:-

chmod +x /home/somebody
chmod g+rx /home/somebody/www
find /home/somebody/www -type f | xargs chmod 644

I didn't set /home/somebody as executable earlier so maybe that was it.

> Also, I took a look at mod_userdir and it says the URLs will be like
> http://example.com/~user/ which is not what I'm looking to do. My
> users have their own domains.

Fair enough. You could look at mod_vhost alias if you have a lot of
users to set up.

Cheers,
Phil.

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