Robert, On Wed, 2016-12-28 at 01:43 +0100, John Fawcett wrote: > On 12/28/2016 01:12 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > > On 12/27/2016 07:06 PM, John Fawcett wrote: > > > On 12/28/2016 12:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > > > > On 12/27/2016 05:44 PM, John Fawcett wrote: > > > > > That error should be caused by having MultiViews options but > > > > > incorrect > > > > > permissions (711 instead of 755) on the directory. > > > > > > > > I just did chmod -R 755 /home/rgm/public_html and no change in > > > > behavior. > > > > > > > > Even tried chmod -R 755 /home/rgm > > > > > > Are you actually using MultiViews? If you don't need that option, > > > maybe > > > the easiest thing is to take it out and see if the error message > > > changes. > > > > I am using the default conf file for userdir. > > > > /etc/httpd/conf.d/userdir.conf > > > > So I deleted Multiviews and now the error is: > > > > [Tue Dec 27 19:09:31.013176 2016] [autoindex:error] [pid 2138] > > (13)Permission denied: [client 192.168.160.12:55762] AH01275: Can't > > open directory for index: /home/rgm/public_html/family/ > > > > > > ____ > > I know this is not going to help, but that error means that apache > does > not have access to read the directory /home/rgm/public_html/family/. > That doesn't really fit with the rest of the evidence, that you have > chmod 755 everything from /home/rgm/public_html downwards and that > apache can read specific files from /home/rgm/public_html. > John but is apache allowed access to /home/rgm ? Try su - apache -s /bin/bash to run a shell as apache and see how far you get starting from cd /home and if that works cd /home/rgm and so on... That will check normal user permissions, but not selinux /Louis