[SOLVED] XAMPP UserDir in /var/www

Wellesly · 02-19-2013, 01:17 AM

Trying to use mod_userdir in my XAMPP installation. I want to put the user web directories in /var/www, but I am having some trouble.

httpd-userdir.conf:

Code:

# Settings for user home directories
#
# Required module: mod_authz_core, mod_authz_host, mod_userdir

#
# UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.  Note that you must also set
# the default access control for these directories, as in the example below.
#
UserDir /var/www
UserDir disabled root

#
# Control access to UserDir directories.  The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
<Directory "/var/www/*">
    AllowOverride All
    Options FollowSymLinks
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Accessing http://localhost/~wellesly/ gives me a 403 error and the following error-log entry: “client denied by server configuration: /var/www/wellesly/”. Adding Require all granted to httpd-userdir.conf gives me a 404 error.

Permissions on /var/www/wellesly are 775, /var/www is 755, and /var is 755, and /var/www/wellesly contains CakePHP and the index.php file that comes with it.

What am I missing?

fortran · 02-19-2013, 02:45 AM

Have you changed

Code:

DocumentRoot "/var/www"

&

Code:

# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
<Directory "/var/www">

Restart the XAMPP

If you have defined , virtual host, change the path there too.

Wellesly · 02-19-2013, 11:29 AM

That works, but it seems like odd behavior. If I had used the default configuration of UserDir public_html, would it have been necessary to make /home the document root?

fortran · 02-19-2013, 11:23 PM

What is the odd behaviour?
The DocumentRoot is the path where you want to keep your projects, it is not just restricted to 'htdocs', you can set it anywhere in the filesystem.
If you want to put your projects in public_html, set the path of the public_html directory.

fortran · 01-28-2014, 06:48 AM

If you want to activate UserDir attribute in xampp, you have to uncomment following line in /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf

Code:

Include etc/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

Now open the file /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-userdir.conf and uncomment these two lines and change UserDir disabled to UserDir enabled

Code:

UserDir enabled
UserDir public_html

The second line says public_html directory is now htdocs directory for users. It's path has been given in the same file.

Code:

<Directory "/home/*/public_html">

All new users are created in /home.

Now you can access per user web directories using

Code:

http://localhost/~username1
http://localhost/~username2
http://localhost/~username3
etc

Now here you were facing Access Forbidden Error when you were accessing these links.
Because there wass an Directory attribute in /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf

Code:

<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>

it says AllowOverride none & Require all denied
Just comment these four lines

Code:

#<Directory />
#    AllowOverride none
 #   Require all denied
#</Directory>

and restart xampp using

Code:

# /opt/lampp/lampp start

Now try to open http://localhost/~username1
You will not get access forbidden error.

Note : If you make any type of changes in conf file of xampp, Restart xampp once to see the changes.