Lighttpd

The user running the lighttpd daemon (e.g. www-data) needs permission to read the files that lighttpd servers, and needs to be able to traverse the directories to the files that lighttpd serves. If your home directory is mode 0700, then the www-data user will not be able to reach /home/vincent/public_html/index.html

mod_userdir

gstrauss wrote in RE: mod 'userdir' doesn#t work: need to change permissions ?:

The user running the lighttpd daemon (e.g. www-data) needs permission to read the files that lighttpd servers, and needs to be able to traverse the directories to the files that lighttpd serves. If your home directory is mode 0700, then the www-data user will not be able to reach /home/vincent/public_html/index.html

mod_userdir

Thanks GStrauss,
If I give write-permission to 'others' for /home/vincent/public_html/index.html, shouldn't lighttpd be able to show that file ???

Or should I simply
chown www-data -R /home/vincent/publich_html/
???

Thanks for your help
V

Neither.

Why do you need to serve files from your userdir? You do not seem to have the basic knowledge required to serve files correctly from userdirs, so I recommend you simply serve files from the lighttpd document root, and give yourself permission to put files there.

you are probably right, thanks !

good choice not to muck your your homedir permissions.

There are security implications to chmod o+x, especially on a home directory.

Also, on some systems, SELinux protections require extra steps to allow the web server access to userdirs underneath the homedir.