Apache UserDir

Abbaddon · 09-15-2004, 01:14 AM

I'm wanting shell users to have there own website ie mydomain/~user

I followed the directions at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod...r.html#userdir

And my httpd.conf file looks like this

# Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</LimitExcept>
</Directory>

#
# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

But yet it's not working, what am I doing wrong?

gbonvehi · 09-15-2004, 01:40 AM

mmm, i really don't know if this is ok because i don't use it but i have an example on my httpd.conf that looks like:
#
# UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.
#
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</IfModule>

Abbaddon · 09-15-2004, 01:43 AM

#
# UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.
#
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</IfModule>

Yeah, I have it too. I didn't paste it. It's the same but yet it won't work.

gbonvehi · 09-15-2004, 01:46 AM

I'm assuming that you're creating the requerid ~/public_html directory right?

And if you did it, you gave permission to all for reading. all = user, group and others.

Abbaddon · 09-15-2004, 01:48 AM

Yeah, I did I even have a index.html in there.

And the conf says it's enabled for everyone, it just won't work.

gbonvehi · 09-15-2004, 02:06 AM

Well, I really don't know what else to do. Try commenting out all the Directory stuff, leaving what i pasted and what u had about index.

Abbaddon · 09-15-2004, 02:11 AM

I did

gbonvehi · 09-15-2004, 02:16 AM

This is weird, i've just tried that in my apache server and worked. The only thing i did besides that was to restart it.

Abbaddon · 09-15-2004, 02:23 AM

Did you restart the whole machine or just the webserver?

What command did you use?

Cause I've restarted just the webserver

gbonvehi · 09-15-2004, 02:24 AM

Just the webserver: /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd restart

Abbaddon · 09-15-2004, 02:41 AM

That's what I've been doing :/

Cerbere · 09-15-2004, 06:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Abbaddon
But yet it's not working, what am I doing wrong?

The first thing you're doing wrong is not telling us what error you receive. 'It's not working' isn't very informative.

Secondly, when you say:

Quote:

And the conf says it's enabled for everyone, it just won't work.

it leads me to believe that you misunderstood gbonvehi, when he asked:

Quote:

I'm assuming that you're creating the requerid ~/public_html directory right?

And if you did it, you gave permission to all for reading. all = user, group and others.

This refers to running chmod on the /home/user/public_html directories, so that they are readable by the user 'nobody' (the user that apache runs as).

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

Abbaddon · 09-15-2004, 11:28 AM

chmod 777 public_html

Would that work?