25/02/10

User Home Pages and Web Sites

Simplest: just create directories within document root

Instead: can designate a directory within the user's
  home directory as the place where s/he puts his/her
  web pages: public_html

Module: mod_userdir

Directive: UserDir, e.g.
  UserDir /users/2012/*/public_html
Then if a URL contains ~dtab2, the * is replaced by dtab2.

We can disable certain mis-behaving users or accounts used
  by adminstrators or by daemons:
  UserDir disable dtab2 root nobody webserv

We can disable all, and then enable selectively:
  UserDir disable
  UserDir enable dtab2 

If you allow users to have their own web sites, as above,
then must think about how to configure .htaccess (per-directory
configuration files), e.g. disable them
  <Directory />
    AllowOverride None
  </Directory>

Must think about the legal issues if users put defamatory
material into their pages.