Recipe 22.8. Giving Users Individual Web Directories
22.8.1 Problem
You
want
your
users to have their own individual web directories that site visitors
can access via www.domain.com/~user, because
this is the quickest and simplest way to give users public web pages.
You don't need to mess with DNS or virtual hosts;
just set up the user's directory, and
you're done.
22.8.2 Solution
Set up your user directories in /var/www/users,
or wherever you store your site files. Give each user his own
subdirectory (e.g.,
/var/www/users/peters).
Stick a copy of any index.html file in
/peters, for testing. Then make this entry in
httpd.conf:
UserDir /var/www/users
Restart Apache, and try this in a web browser:
http://localhost/~peters/
You should see your test index page.
22.8.3 Discussion
Remember to set the permissions on each user's
directory so that legitimate users can get in, and unauthorized users
are kept out. Set ownership to the user and the
user's personal group, mode 755, because web pages
must be world-readable.
22.8.4 See Also
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