Need Help With Apache and User Homepages

[MBCook]

I've looked through all the config files and everything seems correct, and nothing shows up in the log. I'm trying to make it so that a user can type "http://(insert the name of my server here)/~username" to get to their personal homepage. The config files seem set up for it by default, and all I should need to to make a directory called /home/username/public_html and put stuff in there, but it doesn't work. No errors in the log, just a 403 forbidden. Any ideas?
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[mksoft]

What are the permissions on the user's home dir (and public_html)
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[MBCook]

They are the normal ones. Both are have an owner of the user in question, and belong to the group users.

IE:

If the user is 'joebob'

then 'ls -l /home' would show something like this:

dblahblah root root httpd/
dblahblah joebob users joebob/

and the premissions for /home/joebob are the same as those for /home/joebob/public_html. All the permissions are the defaults.

EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT

OK, check the permission bits, and the joebob directory wasn't world readable, when i changed the permissions to 755, it worked. I hate it when simple stuff like this happenes. thanks.
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Read an intelligent book like "The New Thought Police" or "The War Against Boys", and learn the TRUTH.