On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 07:33 -0500, linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx 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.
