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of Shawn M. Jones

Setting up user directories for Apache (i.e. ~user) on CentOS 5:

1. Change the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and comment out:

   UserDir disable

   and un-comment:

   UserDir public_html

2. Restart Apache.
3. Create a public_html directory in the user’s home directory.
4. Make sure it has permissions 0755.
5. Make sure their home directory has permission 0711.
6. Make sure that public_html directory has SELinux context:

   user_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t

7. Make sure that the SELinux boolean

   httpd_enable_homedirs

   is set to "on".