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Date:      Sat, 30 Jan 1999 13:09:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Julian C. Dunn" <jdunn@aquezada.com>
To:        circuit@concentric.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: user public_html directory (was "Hello,")
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990130130909.jdunn@aquezada.com>

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>I have a web server running freebsd2.2.7  with apache1.3 and my question is
>how can you run many web sites from one domain?
>Example:    www.happystuff.com  is the main web site  how does one make all
>my users have a web page. I was told how to do it but it don't seem to work
>Example:  say I have a user named dude.   the Main web site looks something
>like this:  www.happystuff.com/~dude  right
>Also I have put a public_HTML in the users directory, but no mater what I do
>it will say permission denied.

One problem is that some installs of FreeBSD (such as a 2.2.6 I once did) make
/home a symbolic link from /usr/home. This really screws up Apache, because IIRC
the default permissions for the / directory are "NoSymLinks" (check your
{srm|access|httpd}.conf files to see if this is the case). The solution is to
let Apache follow symbolic links, by using the following parameters:

<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        # any other stuff you need
</Directory>


HTH,
Julian

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