Apache confusion

[Bob Stocker]

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 09:40, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Densmore [mailto:DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com]
> 
> > /home should be world readable on any
> > webserver, but not /home/user.
> 
> How, then, do we serve /home/user/www/*?
> 
> 
A nice easy way is to recursively chgrp /home/user/www to whatever group
your apache user belongs to, then make it group readable and executable
(chmod -R 750 /home/user/www).  This avoids the problem of user www
directories being world readable.

--Bob