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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head><!-- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX --> <title>Per-user web directories - Apache HTTP Server</title> <link href="../style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /> <link href="../style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" /> <link href="../style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" /> <link href="../images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head> <body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header"> <p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="../faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p> <p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0</p> <img alt="" src="../images/feather.gif" /></div> <div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="../images/left.gif" /></a></div> <div id="path"> <a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.0</a> > <a href="./">How-To / Tutorials</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Per-user web directories</h1> <div class="toplang"> <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/howto/public_html.html" title="English"> en </a> | <a href="../ja/howto/public_html.html" hreflang="ja" rel="alternate" title="Japanese"> ja </a> | <a href="../ko/howto/public_html.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a></p> </div> <p>On systems with multiple users, each user can be permitted to have a web site in their home directory using the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code> directive. Visitors to a URL <code>http://example.com/~username/</code> will get content out of the home directory of the user "<code>username</code>", out of the subdirectory specified by the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code> directive.</p> </div> <div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#related">Per-user web directories</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#userdir">Setting the file path with UserDir</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#enable">Restricting what users are permitted to use this feature</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#cgi">Enabling a cgi directory for each user</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#htaccess">Allowing users to alter configuration</a></li> </ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="../urlmapping.html">Mapping URLs to the Filesystem</a></li></ul></div> <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> <h2><a name="related" id="related">Per-user web directories</a></h2> <table class="related"><tr><th>Related Modules</th><th>Related Directives</th></tr><tr><td><ul><li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html">mod_userdir</a></code></li></ul></td><td><ul><li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code></li><li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#directorymatch">DirectoryMatch</a></code></li><li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code></li></ul></td></tr></table> </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> <h2><a name="userdir" id="userdir">Setting the file path with UserDir</a></h2> <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code> directive specifies a directory out of which per-user content is loaded. This directive may take several different forms.</p> <p>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:</p> <div class="example"><p><code> UserDir public_html </code></p></div> <p>the URL <code>http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html</code> will be translated to the file path <code>/home/rbowen/public_html/file.html</code></p> <p>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:</p> <div class="example"><p><code> UserDir /var/html </code></p></div> <p>the URL <code>http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html</code> will be translated to the file path <code>/var/html/rbowen/file.html</code></p> <p>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:</p> <div class="example"><p><code> UserDir /var/www/*/docs </code></p></div> <p>the URL <code>http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html</code> will be translated to the file path <code>/var/www/rbowen/docs/file.html</code></p> </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> <h2><a name="enable" id="enable">Restricting what users are permitted to use this feature</a></h2> <p>Using the syntax shown in the UserDir documentation, you can restrict what users are permitted to use this functionality:</p> <div class="example"><p><code> UserDir enabled<br /> UserDir disabled root jro fish </code></p></div> <p>The configuration above will enable the feature for all users except for those listed in the <code>disabled</code> statement. You can, likewise, disable the feature for all but a few users by using a configuration like the following:</p> <div class="example"><p><code> UserDir disabled<br /> UserDir enabled rbowen krietz </code></p></div> <p>See <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code> documentation for additional examples.</p> </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> <h2><a name="cgi" id="cgi">Enabling a cgi directory for each user</a></h2> <p>In order to give each user their own cgi-bin directory, you can use a <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#directory"><Directory></a></code> directive to make a particular subdirectory of a user's home directory cgi-enabled.</p> <div class="example"><p><code> <Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin/><br /> Options ExecCGI<br /> SetHandler cgi-script<br /> </Directory> </code></p></div> <p>Then, presuming that <code>UserDir</code> is set to <code>public_html</code>, a cgi program <code>example.cgi</code> could be loaded from that directory as:</p> <div class="example"><p><code> http://example.com/~rbowen/cgi-bin/example.cgi </code></p></div> </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> <h2><a name="htaccess" id="htaccess">Allowing users to alter configuration</a></h2> <p>If you want to allows users to modify the server configuration in their web space, they will need to use <code>.htaccess</code> files to make these changed. Ensure that you have set <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code> to a value sufficient for the directives that you want to permit the users to modify. 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