Is it possible to have some sort of dynamic symbolically linked directory?

Kind of a weird request, but here is my reasoning. I set up apache/php on the weekend, for a project that I am going to work on, on my home server. There are 2 people that are going to connect to this box to do development. There is a central cvs repository and then each person will have there own code base to work out of.

code base directory will be something like this: /home/user1/dev and /home/user2/dev

I was wondering if I could set up a linked directory under apache like the following /usr/local/httpd/codebase and link it to /home/<dynamic username>/dev.

Now I know I could just set up 2 instances of apache under each of our home directories... and I'm sure that's what I'll end up doing, but I was just wondering if something like this is even possible.

If the only solution would be to set up 2 instances of apache... can I just copy the binairies from /usr/local/httpd to some folder in the user's home folder and modify httpd.conf to accomodate those changes? Will it still recognize php or do I need to do some relinking on it's module as well?

Thanks,
drisay.

In most cases, apache will read and follow symlinks.

How about the copying of binary files? Will apache work properly with it's php module if I copy the binary files to each users home folder?

Did you try the apache alias directive (httpd.conf) ?