Re: [cobalt-users] (RAQ4) remioving ~ for website url

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 19 April 2004 08:59 am, wcstaff wrote:

> I have posted this before, but got no response, due to my poor
> explanation. So, here it is again.

Perhaps the reason you don't get a response is because you're hijacking 
someone else's thread.  That's rude, and it causes people to miss your 
post.  Or see it as irrelevant while they're reading about something 
else, and skip over it.

You should always start a new thread with a new topic.

> I am experiencing a problem, on a raq 4, where all my redirectors
> that allow a visitor to type "domainname.com/user" instead of
> "domainname.com/~user" to reach the website are broken. When we
> create a website for a username, the default website location is
> "domainname.com/~user". We then su to the box and go to the main
> domainname.com website location and type "ln -s ../users/username/web
> username". This, in the past, has always eliminated the ~ for the
> website url.

In and of itself, it doesn't eliminate anything.  What it does is adds 
another path to the domain.

Your httpd daemon is NOT following the path; your probably need a 
FollowSymLinks option somewhere for your domain root directory, in 
httpd.conf.

Perhaps a recent update broke it.

Jeff
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