On 11/29/05, Kevin Mitchell <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm running Apache 2.0.52 under Windows XP. I want to use UNC paths for > user directories so I define > > > Alias /mfsdir "//mfs/admin 1" > UserDir "/mfsdir/*/My Website" > > > <Directory "/mfsdir/*/My Website"> > ... > </Directory> > > > When I try to access a user directory using http://1.2.3.4/~foo the system > complains that I don't have permission to access /~foo on this server. > However, I can successfully access > http://1.2.3.4/mfsdir/foo/My Website, which suggests that the userdir > directive isn't expanding as I was expecting, rather than a genuine > permission issue. I've tried lots of different permutations, with no > success. Have I made a silly mistake in my UserDir line, or do aliases > and userdir directives not work together in this way? UserDir should do the aliasing itself. So you want something more like: UserDir "//mfs/admin 1/*/My Website" and similarly, the <Directory> section should address the full file-system path and not the web-path. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx