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--><title>Per-user web directories - Apache HTTP Server</title><link href="/style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /><link href="/images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head><body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header"><p class="menu"><a href="/mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="/mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="/faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="/glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="/sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p><p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0</p><img alt="" src="/images/feather.gif" /></div><div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="/images/left.gif" /></a></div><div id="path"><a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.0</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Per-user web directories</h1>
<p>On systems with multiple users, each user can be permitted to have a
web site in their home directory using the <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code> directive. Visitors
out of the home directory of the user "<code>username</code>", out of
the subdirectory specified by the <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code> directive.</p>
</div><div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#related">Per-user web directories</a></li><li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#userdir">Setting the file path with <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code></a></li><li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#enable">Restricting what users are permitted to use this
feature</a></li><li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#cgi">Enabling a cgi directory for each user</a></li><li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#htaccess">Allowing users to alter configuration</a></li></ul></div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a name="related" id="related">Per-user web directories</a></h2>
<table class="related"><tr><th>Related Modules</th><th>Related Directives</th></tr><tr><td><ul><li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_userdir.html">mod_userdir</a></code></li></ul></td><td><ul><li><code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code></li><li><code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#directorymatch">DirectoryMatch</a></code></li><li><code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code></li></ul></td></tr></table>
</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a name="userdir" id="userdir">Setting the file path with <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code></a></h2>
directive specifies a directory out of which per-user
content is loaded. This directive may take several different forms.</p>
<p>If a path is given which does not start with a leading slash, it is
assumed to be a directory path relative to the home directory of the
specified user. Given this configuration:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
UserDir public_html
</code></p></div>
translated to the file path
<p>If a path is given starting with a slash, a directory path will be
constructed using that path, plus the username specified. Given this
configuration:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
</code></p></div>
<p>If a path is provided which contains an asterisk (*), a path is used
in which the asterisk is replaced with the username. Given this
configuration:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
</code></p></div>
translated to the file path
</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a name="enable" id="enable">Restricting what users are permitted to use this
feature</a></h2>
<p>Using the syntax show in the UserDir documentation, you can restrict
what users are permitted to use this functionality:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
UserDir enabled<br />
UserDir disabled root jro fish
</code></p></div>
<p>The configuration above will enable the feature for all users
except for those listed in the <code>disabled</code> statement.
You can, likewise, disable the feature for all but a few users by
using a configuration like the following:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
UserDir disabled<br />
UserDir enabled rbowen krietz
</code></p></div>
documentation for additional examples.</p>
</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a name="cgi" id="cgi">Enabling a cgi directory for each user</a></h2>
<p>In order to give each user their own cgi-bin directory, you can use
directive to make a particular subdirectory of a user's home directory
cgi-enabled.</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
<DirectoryMatch /home/*/cgi-bin/><br />
Options +ExecCGI<br />
SetHandler cgi-script<br />
</DirectoryMatch>
</code></p></div>
</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a name="htaccess" id="htaccess">Allowing users to alter configuration</a></h2>
<p>If you want to allows users to modify the server configuration in
their web space, they will need to use <code>.htaccess</code> files to
make these changed. Ensure that you have set <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code> to a
value sufficient for the directives that you want to permit the users
additional details on how this works.</p>
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