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  22 <a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> &gt; <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> &gt; <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> &gt; <a href="../">Version 2.5</a> &gt; <a href="./">How-To / Tutorials</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Per-user web directories</h1>
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  24 <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/howto/public_html.html" title="English">&nbsp;en&nbsp;</a> |
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  31 <p>On systems with multiple users, each user can be permitted to have a
  32     web site in their home directory using the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code> directive. Visitors
  33     to a URL <code>http://example.com/~username/</code> will get content
  34     out of the home directory of the user "<code>username</code>", out of
  35     the subdirectory specified by the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code> directive.</p>
  36 <p>Note that, by default, access to these directories is <strong>not</strong>
  37     enabled. You can enable access when using <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code> by uncommenting the line</p>
  38     <div class="example"><p><code>
  39       #Include conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
  40     </code></p></div>
  41     <p>in the default config file, and adapting the <code>httpd-userdir.conf</code>
  42     file as necessary, or by including the appropriate directives in a
  43     <code>Directory</code> block within the main config file.</p>
  44 </div>
  45 <div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#related">Per-user web directories</a></li>
  46 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#userdir">Setting the file path with UserDir</a></li>
  47 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#redirect">Redirecting to external URLs</a></li>
  48 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#enable">Restricting what users are permitted to use this
  49     feature</a></li>
  50 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#cgi">Enabling a cgi directory for each user</a></li>
  51 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#htaccess">Allowing users to alter configuration</a></li>
  52 </ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="../urlmapping.html">Mapping URLs to the Filesystem</a></li></ul></div>
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  55 <h2><a name="related" id="related">Per-user web directories</a></h2>
  56
  57     <table class="related"><tr><th>Related Modules</th><th>Related Directives</th></tr><tr><td><ul><li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html">mod_userdir</a></code></li></ul></td><td><ul><li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code></li><li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#directorymatch">DirectoryMatch</a></code></li><li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code></li></ul></td></tr></table>
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  59 <div class="section">
  60 <h2><a name="userdir" id="userdir">Setting the file path with UserDir</a></h2>
  61
  62
  63     <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code>
  64     directive specifies a directory out of which per-user
  65     content is loaded. This directive may take several different forms.</p>
  66
  67     <p>If a path is given which does not start with a leading slash, it is
  68     assumed to be a directory path relative to the home directory of the
  69     specified user. Given this configuration:</p>
  70
  71     <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">UserDir public_html</pre>
  72
  73
  74     <p>the URL <code>http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html</code> will be
  75     translated to the file path
  76     <code>/home/rbowen/public_html/file.html</code></p>
  77
  78     <p>If a path is given starting with a slash, a directory path will be
  79     constructed using that path, plus the username specified. Given this
  80     configuration:</p>
  81
  82     <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">UserDir /var/html</pre>
  83
  84
  85     <p>the URL <code>http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html</code> will be
  86     translated to the file path <code>/var/html/rbowen/file.html</code></p>
  87
  88     <p>If a path is provided which contains an asterisk (*), a path is used
  89     in which the asterisk is replaced with the username. Given this
  90     configuration:</p>
  91
  92     <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">UserDir /var/www/*/docs</pre>
  93
  94
  95     <p>the URL <code>http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html</code> will be
  96     translated to the file path
  97     <code>/var/www/rbowen/docs/file.html</code></p>
  98
  99     <p>Multiple directories or directory paths can also be set.</p>
 100
 101     <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">UserDir public_html /var/html</pre>
 102
 103
 104     <p>For the URL <code>http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html</code>,
 105     Apache will search for <code>~rbowen</code>. If it isn't found,
 106     Apache will search for <code>rbowen</code> in <code>/var/html</code>. If
 107     found, the above URL will then be translated to the file path
 108     <code>/var/html/rbowen/file.html</code></p>
 109
 110   </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 111 <div class="section">
 112 <h2><a name="redirect" id="redirect">Redirecting to external URLs</a></h2>
 113
 114     <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code> directive can be
 115       used to redirect user directory requests to external URLs.</p>
 116
 117     <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">UserDir http://example.org/users/*/</pre>
 118
 119
 120     <p>The above example will redirect a request for
 121     <code>http://example.com/~bob/abc.html</code> to
 122     <code>http://example.org/users/bob/abc.html</code>.</p>
 123   </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 124 <div class="section">
 125 <h2><a name="enable" id="enable">Restricting what users are permitted to use this
 126     feature</a></h2>
 127
 128
 129     <p>Using the syntax shown in the UserDir documentation, you can restrict
 130     what users are permitted to use this functionality:</p>
 131
 132     <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">UserDir disabled root jro fish</pre>
 133
 134
 135     <p>The configuration above will enable the feature for all users
 136     except for those listed in the <code>disabled</code> statement.
 137     You can, likewise, disable the feature for all but a few users by
 138     using a configuration like the following:</p>
 139
 140     <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 141       UserDir disabled<br />
 142       UserDir enabled rbowen krietz
 143     </pre>
 144
 145
 146     <p>See <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code>
 147     documentation for additional examples.</p>
 148
 149   </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 150 <div class="section">
 151 <h2><a name="cgi" id="cgi">Enabling a cgi directory for each user</a></h2>
 152
 153
 154    <p>In order to give each user their own cgi-bin directory, you can use
 155     a <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#directory">&lt;Directory&gt;</a></code>
 156     directive to make a particular subdirectory of a user's home directory
 157     cgi-enabled.</p>
 158
 159     <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 160 &lt;Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin/&gt;
 161     Options ExecCGI
 162     SetHandler cgi-script
 163 &lt;/Directory&gt;
 164     </pre>
 165
 166
 167     <p>Then, presuming that <code>UserDir</code> is set to
 168     <code>public_html</code>, a cgi program <code>example.cgi</code>
 169     could be loaded from that directory as:</p>
 170
 171     <div class="example"><p><code>
 172     http://example.com/~rbowen/cgi-bin/example.cgi
 173     </code></p></div>
 174
 175     </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 176 <div class="section">
 177 <h2><a name="htaccess" id="htaccess">Allowing users to alter configuration</a></h2>
 178
 179
 180     <p>If you want to allows users to modify the server configuration in
 181     their web space, they will need to use <code>.htaccess</code> files to
 182     make these changed. Ensure that you have set <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code> to a
 183     value sufficient for the directives that you want to permit the users
 184     to modify. See the <a href="htaccess.html">.htaccess tutorial</a> for
 185     additional details on how this works.</p>
 186
 187   </div></div>
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 189 <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/howto/public_html.html" title="English">&nbsp;en&nbsp;</a> |
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 192 <a href="../ko/howto/public_html.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean">&nbsp;ko&nbsp;</a> |
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