setting the permission of /home/user to 0755 'fixed' the issue. having /home/user set to anything stricter, while /home/user/public_html was still set to 0755 made it not work again.
setting the permission of /home/user to 0755 'fixed' the issue. public_ html was still set to 0755 made it not work again.
having /home/user set to anything stricter, while /home/user/