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- <manualpage metafile="public_html.xml.meta">
- <parentdocument href="./">How-To / Tutorials</parentdocument>
-
- <title>Per-user web directories</title>
-
- <summary>
- <p>On systems with multiple users, each user can be permitted to have a
- web site in their home directory using the <directive
- module="mod_userdir">UserDir</directive> 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 <directive
- module="mod_userdir">UserDir</directive> directive.</p>
-
- </summary>
-
- <seealso><a href="../urlmapping.html">Mapping URLs to the Filesystem</a></seealso>
-
- <section id="related">
- <title>Per-user web directories</title>
- <related>
- <modulelist>
- <module>mod_userdir</module>
- </modulelist>
- <directivelist>
- <directive module="mod_userdir">UserDir</directive>
- <directive module="core">DirectoryMatch</directive>
- <directive module="core">AllowOverride</directive>
- </directivelist>
- </related>
- </section>
-
- <section id="userdir">
- <title>Setting the file path with UserDir</title>
-
- <p>The <directive module="mod_userdir">UserDir</directive>
- 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>
-
- <example>
- UserDir public_html
- </example>
-
- <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>
-
- <example>
- UserDir /var/html
- </example>
-
- <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>
-
- <example>
- UserDir /var/www/*/docs
- </example>
-
- <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>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="enable">
- <title>Restricting what users are permitted to use this
- feature</title>
-
- <p>Using the syntax shown in the UserDir documentation, you can restrict
- what users are permitted to use this functionality:</p>
-
- <example>
- UserDir enabled<br />
- UserDir disabled root jro fish
- </example>
-
- <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>
-
- <example>
- UserDir disabled<br />
- UserDir enabled rbowen krietz
- </example>
-
- <p>See <directive module="mod_userdir">UserDir</directive>
- documentation for additional examples.</p>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="cgi">
- <title>Enabling a cgi directory for each user</title>
-
- <p>In order to give each user their own cgi-bin directory, you can use
- a <directive module="core" type="section">Directory</directive>
- directive to make a particular subdirectory of a user's home directory
- cgi-enabled.</p>
-
- <example>
- <Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin/><br />
- Options ExecCGI<br />
- SetHandler cgi-script<br />
- </Directory>
- </example>
-
- <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>
-
- <example>
- http://example.com/~rbowen/cgi-bin/example.cgi
- </example>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="htaccess">
- <title>Allowing users to alter configuration</title>
-
- <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 <directive
- module="core">AllowOverride</directive> to a
- value sufficient for the directives that you want to permit the users
- to modify. See the <a href="htaccess.html">.htaccess tutorial</a> for
- additional details on how this works.</p>
-
- </section>
-
- </manualpage>
-