So, the other day I restored a few files in my home directory to get this nag from Ubuntu when I logged in saying the .dmrc file did not have correct permissions.

I searched around and found if you set the /home/<username> folder permissions to 700, it would fix it, and it did!

But then I tried to bring up http://cobweb/ which apache tries to load /home/aubrey/Sites/cobweb

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:

NameVirtualHost cobweb:80
<VirtualHost cobweb:80>
 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

 DocumentRoot /home/aubrey/Sites/cobweb
  <Directory /home/aubrey/Sites/cobweb>
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
   AllowOverride All
   Order allow,deny
   allow from 127.0.0.1
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

/etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 cobweb

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
127.0.1.1 aubrey-laptop

So, after some tinkering, I found out the proper permissioin for the home folder is 701, and after that, apache loaded http://cobweb/ correctly.

Happy camping!

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