On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, James Pifer wrote:

I'm using yum-pull for creating a local yum repo. I have a non-root user that runs the script and the files are stored in that user's home directory. I'm trying to make that directory available with httpd. The user owns all the files and subdirs and the rights on all the files is: -rw-r--r--

I added this to the bottom of httpd.conf and restarted httpd.

Alias /repomirror /home/user1/YumRepo

<Directory /home/user1/YumRepo> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny #Allow from 172.16 127.0.0.1 #Deny from all

</Directory>

When I try to access http://servername/repomirror I get a 403 permission denied.

What permissions need to be set? Can I publish the directory this way?

Assuming that there's at least o+x perms on /home/user1 and o+rx on /home/user1/YumRepo, my suspicion is that you're violating SELinux policy. Try

chcon -R --reference=/var/www/html /home/user1/YumRepo

On 2/14/06, James Pifer jep@obrien-pifer.com wrote:

I'm using yum-pull for creating a local yum repo. I have a non-root user that runs the script and the files are stored in that user's home directory. I'm trying to make that directory available with httpd. The user owns all the files and subdirs and the rights on all the files is: -rw-r--r--

I added this to the bottom of httpd.conf and restarted httpd.

Alias /repomirror /home/user1/YumRepo

<Directory /home/user1/YumRepo> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny #Allow from 172.16 127.0.0.1 #Deny from all

</Directory>

When I try to access http://servername/repomirror I get a 403 permission denied.

I was under the impression that order options were taken in order. If that's the case then what you have here, is a rule allowing an ip range and then another rule that denies everything. The deny happens after the allow, and so overrules it.

Try switching your order to deny,allow then do deny from all ; allow from 172.16 127.0.0.1

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