I tried it out, and agree.  It's ok for the home directory to be 711 
if the public_html subdirectory is 755.

Steven Yellin

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Christopher Tooley wrote:

> Hello!
>
> As far as I know, changing *only* ~smd/public_html to 755 should be sufficient.  Changing your home directory to readable/executable by all is not very private unless you're on a machine that has only one user. :)
>
> -Chris
>
> On 2011-11-21, at 9:14 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
>
>>     Try changing permissions on the smd directory (and smd/public_html if
>> necessary) with 'chmod 755 smd', provided you're willing to let all users
>> read the smd directory.
>>
>> Steven Yellin
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Dr. Sunil M. Dogra wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Thank you for reply,
>>>
>>>
>>> I changed /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf accordingly but still have permission
>>> problem. Any help ?
>>>
>>> drwx--x--x 56 smd      smd       4096 Nov 19 12:18 smd
>>>
>>> #UserDir disable
>>>
>>> UserDir public_html
>>>
>>> that means it should look for /home/smd/public_html/index.html
>>>
>>> but even then It gave following error
>>> Forbidden
>>>
>>> You don't have permission to access /~smd/ on this server.
>>>
>>> With Best Regards
>>> sunil
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Steven J. Yellin
>>> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>>
>>>>   See comments and other lines around every reference to "UserDir" in
>>>> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.
>>>>
>>>> Steven Yellin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Dr. Sunil M. Dogra wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>> May be a easy question.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have web-server  and now would like to create users so that they have
>>>>> personal pages like
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.myserver.com/~user
>>>>>
>>>>> Please suggest ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you
>>>>> With best Regards
>>>>> sunil
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>