Re: Users homepages with Apache

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:55:48PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if some other Debian user can provide some assistance to an
> Apache problem:
> 
>  1. I'm running www.bar.org and www.foo.org via named virtual hosts on
>     one server using Apache (from woody)
> 
>  2. Both addresses http://www.bar.org/~joey/ and
>     http://www.bar.org/~joey/ are valid.

Considering they're identical? :)  [I assume one of those should be foo]

> How can I configure that local users homepages are only available
> under one of the two virtual servers?
> 
> Or even better, how can I create a mapping www.foo.org has /~joey/ and
> /~foo/ while www.bar.org has /~bar/ and a couple of others while one
> virtual host being the default?

How would you distinguish between the two?  Would you have a directory
structure like:
    .../webstuff/foo/joey/
    .../webstuff/foo/foo/
    .../webstuff/bar/bar/

If so, then you can just set the path for the 'UserDir' for each virtual
server seperately.  Something like 'UserDir /whatever/path/webstuff/foo/'
in the foo virtualhost config and a similar one in the bar config will
do that.  (Note that you could also set up the path itself as a 'symlink
forest' pointing to the real data elsewhere, which may be easier to set
up and maintain.)

If you want to do a db file (or even a program) like:
     foo.com.db:
         joey -> /home/joey/public_html
         foo  -> /home/foo/public_html
     bar.com.db:
         bar  -> /home/bar/public_html

... then mod_rewrite is your answer.  It would be a bit more complex to
set up (and not as 'self-documenting' as the directories are), but you
can do a bit more with it.

> Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

icky, but you asked...

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