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<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
    to a URL <code>http://example.com/~username/</code> will get content
    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>

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<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 UserDir</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><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="../urlmapping.html">Mapping URLs to the Filesystem</a></li></ul></div>
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<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>
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<h2><a name="userdir" id="userdir">Setting the file path with UserDir</a></h2>
    

    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code>
    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>

    <p>the URL <code>http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html</code> will be
    translated to the file path
    <code>/home/rbowen/public_html/file.html</code></p>

    <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>
      UserDir /var/html
    </code></p></div>

    <p>the URL <code>http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html</code> will be
    translated to the file path <code>/var/html/rbowen/file.html</code></p>

    <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>
      UserDir /var/www/*/docs
    </code></p></div>

    <p>the URL <code>http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html</code> will be
    translated to the file path
    <code>/var/www/rbowen/docs/file.html</code></p>

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<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>

    <p>See <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code>
    documentation for additional examples.</p>

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<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
    a <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#directory">&lt;Directory&gt;</a></code>
    directive to make a particular subdirectory of a user's home directory
    cgi-enabled.</p>

    <div class="example"><p><code>
      &lt;Directory /home/*/cgi-bin/&gt;<br />
       Options ExecCGI<br />
       SetHandler cgi-script<br />
       &lt;/Directory&gt;
    </code></p></div>

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<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
    to modify. See the <a href="htaccess.html">.htaccess tutorial</a> for
    additional details on how this works.</p>

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