Adding users...

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:31:27PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote:

> 3) If  you want to  have your user  directories outside of  the document
> root,  you will  have to  setup an  Alias for  each user,  or to  define
> another virtual  host.  But  that becomes  close to  solution 1  in that
> case.

Apache has the UserDir directive for this purpose.  The default
setting makes it so that user fred can create a directory
~fred/public_html that is visible to the world as
http://www.example.com/~fred/

See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir
     http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/public_html.html

If you don't want the '~' symbol to appear in your URLs, you can't use
UserDir.  However, if you have a regular layout of your user
directories, you can use 'AliasMatch' to achive much the same effect:

    http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/urlmapping.html#user

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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