[SOLVED] FC6 httpd Alias/symbolic link
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linuxmaillists at charter.net
Wed Mar 7 04:53:40 UTC 2007
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 07:33 -0500,
linuxmaillists at 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.
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