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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>