Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:46:41 +0100 From: "Peter McGarvey" <Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk> To: "Dan Mahoney Jr." <danm@DanMahoney.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: httpd questions Message-ID: <NDBBJLAJELEHNLGABIJNAENBCJAA.Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909200301170.37235-100000@acetylene.vapornet.net>
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> 1. Is there a way to turn off the tilde in userdirs, as we are porting > from a system where userdirs were handled differently (read:poorly). Jon > Chen on this list suggested in an earlier email to create a symlink from > htdocs/username to username/public_html (but that sounds like a LOT of > symlinks), as well as a complication to adding and removing users. I suspect you're stuck with the tilde thing unless you rewrite apache. I agree the symbolic links thing is a bit of a pain. I faced a similar problem when I migrated our webservers off NT onto a BSD/Apache box. I found the best work around was to add a permanent redirect to httpd.conf. <VirtualHost 193.63.96.1> ServerName www.rncm.ac.uk Redirect permanent /users/xaphod http://hermes.rncm.ac.uk/~xaphod </VirtualHost> If you have many users it should be simple enough to write a tiny perl script to create the directives for you. > 2. Is there some way to prevent virtual hosts from reflecting userdirs: > > For example, www.ourwebhostingclient.com/~anyuser > > should NOT show through, but it does. > To do this you need to place the user directory directives within the virtual host directives. The following is snipped from my httpd.conf. NameVirtualHost 193.63.96.1 <VirtualHost 193.63.96.1> ServerName hermes.rncm.ac.uk ... snippage... UserDir public_html <Directory "/home/*/public_html"> ... snippage... </Directory> ... snippage... </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 193.63.96.1> ServerName www.rncm.ac.uk ... snippage... </VirtualHost> The URL http://hermes.rncm.ac.uk/~xaphod gets to my home directory whereas http://www.rncm.ac.uk/~xaphod throws out a 403 error. TTFN, FNORD -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Peter McGarvey, Networks Manager | email: Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk Royal Northern College of Music | tel: +44 (0)161 907 5218 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, | fax: +44 (0)161 273 7611 England M13 9RD | mobile: +44 (0)7887 990564 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Thanks for all the help... > > -Dan Mahoney > > -- > > "She's been getting attacked by these leeches, they're leaving > these marks > all over her neck. You gotta keep her out of those woods. If one more > leech gets her, she's gonna get a smack." > > -Someone's Mother, December 18th, 1998 > > Dan Mahoney > Gushi on efnet IRC > ICQ:13735144 > AIM:LarpGM > (webpages TBA) > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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