Re: Newbie - 2 items: directories and trailing slashes, Apache 2.0

On 17 Jul 2003 04:47:27 -0700, The Other Guy responded to a post from
kynan76@yahoo.com who wrote in alt.apache.configuration:

>Hi,
>
>I seem to be having trouble with two things:
>
>1.
>I have set up UserDir directives, and that seems to work fine for the
>/home/*/public_html directories.
>I can't seem to change this to /home/*/www. I changed the directive
>and the path just below the directive, but I still always get a file
>not found error! (The file is definitely there - I have a www and an
>html dir.)
>What could be wrong?

Did you start restart Apache after making changes to httpd.conf?
See also comments below.


>2.
>When using the public_html directories, I can access the index.htm
>file via
>http://blah.blah.blah/~user/index.htm and
>http://blah.blah.blah/~user/
>but not:
>http://blah.blah.blah/~user
>Why not? Is there something I can change to map this correctly?

When you defined your user directory location in the httpd.conf file,
you may have used a trailing slash at the end of it (e.g., UserDir
"/usr/local/home/public_html/"). Removing the slash at the end should
do it. Either that, or you have to set a server name. See
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FA...set-servername and also
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#servername

If you defined your subdirectory directive in the httpd.conf file, you
may have used a trailing slash at the end of it (e.g., <Directory
"/usr/local/apache/htdocs/subdirectory/">). Removing the slash at the
end should do it.

If you are using a *nix O/S, they don't require file extensions, and
it assumes that /mysite is a file rather than a directory. A solution
is documented under the RewriteRule section at:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html


>Thanks in advance for your advice!
>Kynan


HTH
TOG

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Got it!!


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/([uge])/([^/]+)$ /$1/$2/ [R]


Thanks TOG



Does anyone know how to configure Apache to run user directories without the tilde?

i.e. /server/user
instead of /server/~user

Thanks
Kynan