[cobalt-users] Re: HELP: tilde in path after URL

[Joerg Hueddersen <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Message: 21
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:03:57 +0200
> From: andy de paoli <andy.de_paoli@xxxxxx>
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] HELP: tilde in path after URL
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Can someone help me find a way to remove the tilde in something like
>     www.domainname.com/~user
>
> I am probably missing something really stupid, I've tried various
> changes and directives but they do not seem to work  (such as:
> UserDir http://www.domainename.com/*)
>
> I have a RAQ3 and I have received a request for a domain site with
> various users to be under it, unfortunately when I set it up the pages
> are accessed with a tilde and the client absolutely doesn't want it.
> He asked for:
>    www.domainname.com/user1
>    www.domainname.com/user2   etc.
> instead of
>     www.domainname.com/~user1
>    www.domainname.com/~user2   etc.
>
> PLEASE can someone help me,
> thanks,
> Andy
>
> andy.de_paoli@xxxxxx
> www.nefila.com
> www.thundy.com

I made a link from /web/name pointing to /users/name/web (all pathes 
relativ to domain-base /home/sites/sitex/ ):

cd /home/sites/sitex/web
ln -s /home/sites/sitex/users/name/web name

To make this work you must edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Add the 
following lines to the NameVirtualHost-section of
the site:

<Directory "/home/sites/sitex/web">
Options FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

where sitex is the site you want to remove the ~ . After completing the 
changes you need to restart the webserver. Now users can store their  files 
as a personal website (with their personal account, no site-admins needed) 
under /users/name/web and access it via www.domain.com/name.

Best regards

   Jörg






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