Virtual Host in user's public_html [solved]

[tyme]

I want to be able to point virtual hosts to directories inside a users public_html folder in their home directory while not having the site available via http://domain/~username/blah - is this simply a matter of removing the UserDir param in http's config? For some reason I have this feeling that doing that would make apache incapable of recognizing/using the public_html folder to serve up the sites, or am I wrong about that?

 

Basically I want users to be able to go to:

http://userssite.tld/

and get the site, but not at:

http://servers.tld/~username/usersite.tld/

 

This is a server with multiple domains, and various users. I want them all to be able to administrate their own stuff from within their user directory, so far as I allow them. I'm currently doing a whole bunch of moving and setting up of various services (my first time setting up a server from scratch for LAMP + Mail + whatever else I want to mess with), so I may have more questions forthcoming.

Edited March 7, 2008 by tyme

[ianw1974]

If you don't have the userdir parameter in Apache, then it won't allow you do to the http://server/~username bit. However, what I would then do, is set an apache config file in /etc/apache2/conf.d/vhosts or wherever they are located, and then set the url you want to access, and point it to the DocumentRoot of the home directory of the user /home/user/public_html. For example, you could set:

 

ServerName username.domain.com

 

and then ensure that you set the Document path's correctly, and you should be up and running. I'll check my apache config and update what I did for one of my domains as I have multiple domains on one single ip all in different vhosts.

[ianw1974]

This was from my vhost file:

 

<IfDefine DEFAULT_VHOST>

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName	  www.lsltd.org
	ServerAlias	 lsltd.org
	DocumentRoot "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/joomla"
	<Directory "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/joomla">
			Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
			AllowOverride All
			Order allow,deny
			Allow from all
	</Directory>

	Include /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/99_joomla_default_vhost.include

	<IfModule mpm_peruser_module>
			ServerEnvironment apache apache
	</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
</IfDefine>

 

and from the default.include file (you can merge this into the one file if you like, it was just something I left as is because of how apache was working on Gentoo):

 

ServerAdmin root@localhost

<IfModule alias_module>
	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/"
</IfModule>

<Directory "/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin">
	AllowOverride None
	Options None
	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all
</Directory>

 

this is on a gentoo system, therefore the vhost conf file was in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d. This was to get my domain - www.lsltd.org working on a system that had multiple vhosts and only one single static IP address assigned. Hope it helps a bit.

 

Effectively, all you need to be doing is creating a vhost for each user, and then pointing each vhost to their home directory. I don't know if there will be a permissions problem, but it's worth testing anyway, and this is how I would do it if I didn't want the userdir parameter enabled and used.

[tyme]

i got it working. i just turned off userdirs and pointed the virtual hosts to the right directory - it was easier than i expected.

[ianw1974]

Ah cool