... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . ... This document explains how the Apache HTTP Server uses the URL of a request to determine the filesystem location from which to serve a file. ... Then a request for http://www.example.com/fish/ will cause httpd to attempt to serve the file /var/www/html/fish/index.html . ... The module mod_userdir extends this idea to the web by allowing files under each user's home directory to be accessed using URLs such as the following. http://www.example.com/~user/file.html ....