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davidd
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PostPosted: Sat May 31, 2003 6:25 am    Post subject: setting up /~username on Apache Reply with quote
I would like to be able to
have my webserver direct people to a folder in their home dir.

/home/username/public_html. when you enter www.domain.com/~username

thisway the users on my machine can have remote access to the files they want easily.



I would also like username.domain.com to take them to the same folder..

I know this can be done somehow in vhosts but i've played around and cant get it working. I think i can get the username.domain.com to work with some more effort.

But would like some instructions on how to setup /~username
I dont know quite where to start..
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PostPosted: Sat May 31, 2003 7:21 am    Post subject: Re: setting up /~username on Apache Reply with quote
davidd wrote:
/home/username/public_html. when you enter www.domain.com/~username

This is already enabled in the /etc/apache/conf/commonapache.conf:
Code:
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
    AllowOverride All
    Options MultiViews -Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

If it doesn't work for you, check the permissions of the directories and files you want to access. You need
- at least "rx" permissions for "others" for public_html and dirs below ("r" only if you want to have dir listing in absence of an index.html),
- at least "x" for "others" for all dirs to / (e.g., for /, /home, /home/username),
- and "r" for all files under public_html which you want to access.
This is because the user apache is not the owner of the user's files and apache's group is probably not "users" but "apache".

To trace errors look in /var/log/apache/{access,error}_log.
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