User directory

I have just installed Apache 1.3.29 on my RedHat 9.0 machine.
I already have it installed on a Windows 98 machine and have been running
my website for two years with it. I don't remember having any big problems
setting it up in Windows.
I'm a newbie to Linux but the httpd.conf file looks pretty much the same.
My home directory is set to /usr/local/apache/home. Works fine.
However I can't get my user directories to work. I have
UseDir /usr/local/apache/users and have tried
UseDir "/usr/local/apache/users" in case the quotes made a difference.
I've put a trailing slash on it... no difference.
From experimentation I've found that a call to www.mydomain.com/~username
is actually looking in the /home directory. So I put an index.html in
/home/abner and tried www.mydomain.com/~abner and got a permission denied
error. So I changed the permissions on that folder and now I get "page not
found". That was just some playing I was doing. I don't want the users
web pages in the /home directory anyway.
So what do I need to do to make ~username point to /usr/local/apache/users?
Thanks in advance!

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I child-proofed my house but they are still getting in.

Lil' Abner <blvstk DeleteThis @dogpatch.com> wrote:
 > /home/abner and tried <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.mydomain.com/~abner" target="_blank">www.mydomain.com/~abner</a> and got a permission denied

All the files must be world-readable and all the directories world-readable
and world-executable. Otherwise apache won't be able to access them.

 > error. So I changed the permissions on that folder and now I get "page not
 > found".

Check the UserDir directive, it contains the name of the directory that
is looked at when you try to access an home dir.

See the documentation on <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.apache.org" target="_blank">www.apache.org</a> about UserDir.

Davide

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