Help needed with user directories

[rninja]

I want to set up userdirectories. I see that in apache documentation, the userdirectories are supposed to show up like follows:

http://www.domain.com/~user

However when I do that, I get forbidden.
BTW- Is there any way of getting rid of the tilde?

Thanks

RNINJA

 

[rycamor]

Apache must be installed with mod_userdir:

Look for the following in httpd.conf:

LoadModule userdir_module libexec/mod_userdir.so

AddModule mod_userdir.c

And

# UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.
#
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</IfModule>

If these are not present, try to add them in their respective areas (look for LoadModule and Addmodule) and place the <ifModule directive down below.

If you already have these in your httpd.conf, then you need to look for something like:

<Directory /home/*/public_html>

and see if it is somehow configured to disallow web viewing. You can even try to comment out that whole section with &quot;#&quot;s.

And make sure you are setting up your users with a &quot;public_html&quot; directory inside their user directory: (/home/username/public_html).

I don't know of a quick way to get rid of the tilde, but it should be possible with mod_rewrite.

 

[rninja]

I do have LoadModule and addModule set.
I also have the directory container with necessary directives. However I still get forbidden.

Any other Ideas?


Rninja

 

[rninja]

I got the info. I had to either set the /home/* directory with permissions 755, or set the group to nobody with permissions 750.
;-)