Apache Module mod_userdir

Summary

This module allows user-specific directories to be accessed using thehttp://example.com/~user/ syntax.

Directives

• UserDir

Bugfix checklist

• httpd changelog
• Known issues
• Report a bug

See also

• Mapping URLs to theFilesystem
• public_htmltutorial
• Comments

UserDirDirective

TheUserDir directive sets the real directory in a user's home directory to use when a request for a document for a user is received.Directory-filename is one of the following:

• The name of a directory or a pattern such as those shown below.
• The keyworddisabled. This turns offall username-to-directory translations except those explicitly named with theenabled keyword (see below).
• The keyworddisabled followed by a space-delimited list of usernames. Usernames that appear in such a list willnever have directory translation performed, even if they appear in anenabled clause.
• The keywordenabled followed by a space-delimited list of usernames. These usernames will have directory translation performed even if a global disable is in effect, but not if they also appear in adisabled clause.

If neither theenabled nor thedisabled keywords appear in theUserdir directive, the argument is treated as a filename pattern, and is used to turn the name into a directory specification. A request forhttp://www.example.com/~bob/one/two.html will be translated to:

The following directives will send redirects to the client:

Additional examples:

To allow a few users to haveUserDir directories, but not anyone else, use the following:

UserDir disabledUserDir enabled user1 user2 user3

To allow most users to haveUserDir directories, but deny this to a few, use the following:

UserDir disabled user4 user5 user6

It is also possible to specify alternative user directories. If you use a command like:

UserDir "public_html" "/usr/web" "http://www.example.com/"

With a request forhttp://www.example.com/~bob/one/two.html, will try to find the page at~bob/public_html/one/two.html first, then/usr/web/bob/one/two.html, and finally it will send a redirect tohttp://www.example.com/bob/one/two.html.

If you add a redirect, it must be the last alternative in the list. Apache httpd cannot determine if the redirect succeeded or not, so if you have the redirect earlier in the list, that will always be the alternative that is used.

User directory substitution is not active by default in versions 2.1.4 and later. In earlier versions,UserDir public_html was assumed if noUserDir directive was present.

See also

• Per-user web directories tutorial