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I know this has got to be easy to fix but I am having a hard finding the
answer.  We upgraded to BSDi 4.2 and thus the new apache and now all of the
user dirs are only available if you goto
http://www.server.com/~user/index.html instead of previously
http://www.server.com/~user/

in the error_log it enters
client denied by server configuration: /home/a/user/.html
I have seen some references to fix this...it has something to do with the
<Files> parameters....?
our DocumentRoot is set to the correct files....

if anyone has an httpd.conf file for a server that has multiple user dirs
that have their personal homepages set in .html dir I would greatly
appreciate being able to see it (you can email me off list if you prefer)

TIA
Frank

The first thing I would check is permission of user's home dir (at least
701) and ".html" dir.  Or it could be the dot in ".html" that is causing
the problem.  If configure for the usual public_html instead, does that
work for a user's public_html dir?

However, also check your <Directory> paths and note that * does NOT match
'/' (another poster made that mistake).  So if something is defined for
/home/*/.html that would NOT match /home/*/*/.html

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That http://www.server.com/~user/ doesnt work doesnt matches my ideas
Im writing a few lines later, but your entries in the error_log does.

Quote:

> in the error_log it enters
> client denied by server configuration: /home/a/user/.html
> I have seen some references to fix this...it has something to do with the
> <Files> parameters....?

<Files> seems the right place to look at. The ".html" perfectly matches
any <Files ~ "^\.ht"> contexts. Look wether you have such a setting to
protect your AccessFiles .htaccess (.htpasswd). This files-directive can
bes considered to be buggy, as already mentioned at bugs.apache.org. If
theres a request for directory without trailing slash, apache evaluate
the requested resource as a file.

Best you keep the default "UserDir public_html" .

...max