The default configuration of Fedora Core 4 with SELinux enabled causes problems when you want to use the UserDir feature in Apache Httpd. Problem: SELinux is stopping the httpd processes from accessing your home directory. ``` Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~foo/ on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) Server at localhost Port 80 ``` Solution: From your shell ... ``` [foo@localhost ~]$ chcon -R -t httpd_user_content_t public_html/ ``` If you get the following... ``` [foo@localhost ~]$ chcon -R -t httpd_user_content_t public_html/ chcon: failed to change context of public_html/index.html to root:object_r:httpd_user_content_t: Operation not permitted ``` It's probably because "index.html" is zero-length, I just placed an empty file in public_html and it failed first time, I removed the file and it went through the rest of it just fine. Related Links: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Fedora http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/index.html#id2825658