~usernames in apache

[BrummieJim]

Hi,
I used to be able to start my apache 2.2.6-r5 server and have it access my public_html directory. I haven't done it in ages, tried to do it today and failed. It looks like all of the httpd files have changed and this has screwed things up. I think I want to use the userdir directive but can't work out how.

In modules.d/00_mod_userdir.conf there's supposed to be an example, but I couldn't find one.

It seems that all of the config files have been split up, but I can't work out why, or some conversion method.

Any ideas?

[Mark Clegg]

I think all you need to do is edit your /etc/conf.d/apache2 and make sure you've defined USERDIR

eg.

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# Here are the options available in the default configuration:
#
#  AUTH_DIGEST  Enables mod_auth_digest
#  AUTHNZ_LDAP  Enables authentication through mod_ldap (available if USE=ldap)
#  CACHE        Enables mod_cache
#  DAV          Enables mod_dav
#  ERRORDOCS    Enables default error documents for many languages.
#  INFO         Enables mod_info, a useful module for debugging
#  LANGUAGE     Enables content-negotiation based on language and charset.
#  LDAP         Enables mod_ldap (available if USE=ldap)
#  MANUAL       Enables /manual/ to be the apache manual (available if USE=docs)
#  MEM_CACHE    Enables default configuration mod_mem_cache
#  PROXY        Enables mod_proxy
#  SSL          Enables SSL (available if USE=ssl)
#  SUEXEC       Enables running CGI scripts (in USERDIR) through suexec.
#  USERDIR      Enables /~username mapping to /home/username/public_html
#
#
# The following two options provide the default virtual host for the HTTP and
# HTTPS protocol. YOU NEED TO ENABLE AT LEAST ONE OF THEM, otherwise apache
# will not listen for incomming connections on the approriate port.
#
#  DEFAULT_VHOST      Enables name-based virtual hosts, with the default
#                     virtual host being in /var/www/localhost/htdocs
#  SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST  Enables default vhost for SSL (you should enable this
#                     when you enable SSL)
#
APACHE2_OPTS="-D USERDIR -D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D SSL -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST -D SUEXEC -D PHP5"

and then restart apache.