Re: how to serve /~username with apache

On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 04:46:10PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: > All you have to do is put 'UserDir public_html' in your /etc/apache/srm.conf > > Then, you need to issue the following commands: > > chmod a+x ~user To be picky, "chmod o+x ~user" would do it. > mkdir ~user/public_html > chmod a+rx

Re: how to serve /~username with apache

All you have to do is put 'UserDir public_html' in your /etc/apache/srm.conf Then, you need to issue the following commands: chmod a+x ~user mkdir ~user/public_html chmod a+rx ~user/public_html echo "hello" > ~user/public_html/test chmod a+r ~user/public_html/test Then, try lynx localhost/~user

how to serve /~username with apache

I've heard that this is a simple task, so hopefully someone out there can help... I want to configure my apache web server (v1.3) to automatically serve out some arbitrary directory within each user's home directory (i.e. /home/public_html ) I've heard that this is common practice and that it wou