Re: Apache adding users?

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 09:29:27PM -0400, Zach Uram wrote:
> I have Apache 1.3 and now as root to add content I add files into /var/www
> 
> I have a regular user /home/bob but how do I allow him to a have space
> on the webserver and what will his URL be?
> 
> Also how do I enable PHP and cgi-bin for normal users and what
> directory will they use to put their CGI files?

You can use the UserDir configuration for Apache, by which
/home/bob/public_html is served in http://yoursite/~bob.

For more information, please refer to the Apache docs on UserDir.

HTH.

Kumar