I just installed Fedora 2 and try to configure it as my and my friends' website. I don't have a domain name. So the static IP will be the website access. For example, 64.250.222.17 will work for root web access. But how to configure to make each user website work.

I configured each user in httpd.conf as below. But when I try 64.250.222.17/~user, it doesn't work. Is there anything else I should do? Thanks.

David

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
#
# UserDir is disabled by default since it can confirm the presence
# of a username on the system (depending on home directory
# permissions).
#
#UserDir disable

#
# To enable requests to /~user/ to serve the user's public_html
# directory, remove the "UserDir disable" line above, and uncomment
# the following line instead:
#
UserDir public_html

</IfModule>

I don't see the rest of your conf file, but that section looks all right. It took me a while to figure out how to do the same thing. I had to add a <Directory ...> statement in to the file as well. It goes something like this:

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

Plus, if you want to add some CGI scripts to your files as well, add these line as well:

<Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin>
Options ExecCGI
SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>

Good luck!

PS I recommend looking up more info on those options, those MAY be really insecure.

thanks a lot. Is there any requirement for group/user definition for the directory and files? For example, in the httpd.conf, the defaul user and group is apache. Do I need to change the group and file to that group and user? Any permission do I need to change for the files in each user's public_html? thanks.

David

Just so long as the Apache user is able to enter the Web directories and read the files, it is fine.