On systems with multiple users, each user can be permitted to have a
web site in their home directory using the http://example.com/~username/
will get content
out of the home directory of the user "username
", out of
the subdirectory specified by the
Note that, by default, access to these directories is not
enabled. You can enable access when using
in the default config file conf/httpd.conf
, and adapting the httpd-userdir.conf
file as necessary, or by including the appropriate directives in a
The
If a path is given which does not start with a leading slash, it is assumed to be a directory path relative to the home directory of the specified user. Given this configuration:
the URL http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html
will be
translated to the file path
/home/rbowen/public_html/file.html
If a path is given starting with a slash, a directory path will be constructed using that path, plus the username specified. Given this configuration:
the URL http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html
will be
translated to the file path /var/html/rbowen/file.html
If a path is provided which contains an asterisk (*), a path is used in which the asterisk is replaced with the username. Given this configuration:
the URL http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html
will be
translated to the file path
/var/www/rbowen/docs/file.html
Multiple directories or directory paths can also be set.
For the URL http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html
,
Apache will search for ~rbowen
. If it isn't found,
Apache will search for rbowen
in /var/html
. If
found, the above URL will then be translated to the file path
/var/html/rbowen/file.html
The
The above example will redirect a request for
http://example.com/~bob/abc.html
to
http://example.org/users/bob/abc.html
.
Using the syntax shown in the UserDir documentation, you can restrict what users are permitted to use this functionality:
The configuration above will enable the feature for all users
except for those listed in the disabled
statement.
You can, likewise, disable the feature for all but a few users by
using a configuration like the following:
See
In order to give each user their own cgi-bin directory, you can use
a
Then, presuming that UserDir
is set to
public_html
, a cgi program example.cgi
could be loaded from that directory as:
If you want to allows users to modify the server configuration in
their web space, they will need to use .htaccess
files to
make these changes. Ensure that you have set