[SOLVED] FC6 httpd Alias/symbolic link

On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Tim wrote:
>  On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 07:33 -0500,  
linuxmaillists(a)charter.net
wrote:
>  > Well I had it working very nicely but it stopped write
>  > after doing an update.
>  >
>  > This is how I set up httpd.conf
>  >
>  > <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
>  >     #
>  >     # UserDir is disabled by default since it can
>  > confirm the presence # of a username on the system
>  > (depending on home directory # permissions).
>  >     #
>  >     UserDir "disable"
>  >     #
>  >     # To enable requests to /~user/ to serve the user's
>  > public_html # directory, use this directive instead of
>  > "UserDir disable": #
>  >     UserDir public_html
>  > </IfModule>
>  >
>  > It would open with this in the address bar
>  > http://localhost/public_html/
>  > and show my files.  now it has a 404 not found error
>
>  Which technique did you use?  Userdirs, or a custom
>  alias?  Above looks like you used the second.  But you
>  haven't shown us anything else that you've changed for
>  your customisations, this time.  It might be worth
>  posting the whole config file, without anything private
>  included.  By the way, if you're disabling userdirs,
>  write disable without the quotes around it.
>
>  If you used userdirs, then your URL should be along the
>  lines of <http://example.com/~username/>;.  But if you'd
>  made an alias, then you'd use something like
>  <http://example.com/aliasname/>;.
>  
It turns out this is what I was using and when I put it back 
in this condition it started working again.

Alias /public_html "/home/user_name/public_html"

I had commited it out thinking UsrDir public_html was what 
was working.

Maybe I will play around later and see if I can figure out 
how to make the UsrDir public_html work.