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Hi, I have a system running Mandrake 8.2 for a friend and i would really appreciate it if i could get a little conf help for apache.
Basically, i have a group of users, i would like it to be configured so that if that user creates a 'www' directory in their home dir, that the HTML therein can be accessed by going to

http://localhost/~username

Can anyone help? This is a farley rudamentary question, thanks in advance,
Rob

 

[RhythmAce]

This is done by using UserDir. The following will create a web space in the users home dir called public_html. Look for this section in your .conf file:

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</IfModule>

Then create a container just like your main server.

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride none
Options MultiViews Indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

You can use just about any directive that you use in you main server. You can also give them their own cgi-bin.