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- From: Aku Yang Hensem <yusoflaz tm net my>
- To: redhat-install-list redhat com
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- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:46:45 +0700
Tyler Nally wrote:
> I think it's a little more than making a link.
>
> Kevin's right in stating that it's more of a unix thing
> than an apache thing. Actually, it's more of a web server
> unix thing.
>
> Normally, if someone has a web server, they'll put a
> directive in one of the setup files that tell which
> directory in each of the accounts home directory is
> the place where they can build their own WWW tree to put
> their pages, etc. In Apache it should be something like...
>
> UserDir public_html
>
> ---or---
>
> UserDir www
>
> ... this means if someone has an account named "bob" and
> they want to publish pages on a web server at "foo.com" all
> he has to do (in using the first example) is place web page
> stuff in the /home/bob/public_html path and it will be
> referenced by http://www.foo.com/~bob
>
> So, it's not a simple matter of making a link from the persons
> home directory to make it show up differently as the pages
> are typically one directory farther down in the home directory
> than expected.
>
> What you might be able to do... though.... is create an Alias
> with the web server setup to point to a directory where you've
> created an individual *home* spot for each login.
>
> Alias /users/ "/home/www/"
>
> In the example above you tell Apache that the /home/www directory
> will be mapped on the server to "/users/". Then, it's just a
> matter of making sure that everybody that wants a www page at
> http://www.foo.com/users/ has their own directory in there.
>
> "bob" would have a /home/www/bob directory
> "tammy" would have a /home/www/tammy directory, etc.
>
> These directories would have full read and write permissions for
> the users themselves and world readability for the web server.
>
> Another possibility when setting up the login for web server
> access would be to create the /home/www/bob directory at the same
> time as the account is created. At the same time, create a link
> from bob's public_html directory to point to the place where files
> will truly be placed.
>
> /home/bob/public_html ---> /home/www/bob
>
> If you do this, then people can surf their own pages via going
> to http://www.foo.com/~bob -or- http://www.foo.com/users/bob
> either should work properly.
>
> Another possibility would be to create a VirtualServer that seems
> to be a different machine.
>
> http://users.foo.com
>
> ... and have that instance have the default document root location
> point to the equivalent of the Alias for /users" (at /home/www/ above).
> Then people will be able to have a url like....
>
> http://users.foo.com/bob
>
> Tyler Nally
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 5:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Apache and users?
>
> >Durham, Kenneth J wrote:
> >>
> >> I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a way to remove
> >> the ~ before the username when accessing users web pages.
> >
> >This really has nothing to do with Apache and everything to
> >do with unix-style "~"="the user's home directory".
> >
> >The only way of getting what you want would be to actually
> >have those directories in the base web server's home directory.
> >One rather cute way of doing that would be to have the home
> >for apache actually be /home, but that could make non-user
> >web serving (perhaps your main site or other stuff) very messy,
> >if not impossible. If you can dedicate a machine to users'
> >pages (users.mydomain.com) then this might be viable, but
> >otherwise, I think you're asking for trouble.
> >
> > - Kevin Colby
> > kevinc grainsystems com
> >
> >
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