This document explains how Apache uses the URL of a request to determine the filesystem location from which to serve a file. ... User Directories . URL Redirection . ... the URL http://www.example.com/docs/dir/file.html will be served from /var/web/dir/file.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 . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . ... On systems with multiple users, each user can be permitted to have a web site in their home directory using the UserDir directive. Visitors to a URL http://example.com/~username/ will get content out of the home directory of the user " username ", out of the subdirectory specified by the UserDir directive. ... Per-user web directories . ... the URL http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html will be translated to the file path /home/rbowen/public_html/file.html . ...

Next: Background Up: Linux System Administrators' Guide Previous: The filesystem layout . ... A.A. Milne) . This chapter describes the important parts of a standard Linux directory tree, based on the FSSTND filesystem standard. It outlines the normal way of breaking the directory tree into separate filesystems with different purposes and gives the motivation behind this particular split. ... Background . The root filesystem . The /etc directory . ... Sun May 4 14:08:43 EEST 1997 ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 . ... This document explains how Apache uses the URL of a request to determine the filesystem location from which to serve a file. ... User Directories . URL Redirection . ... 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 . ...

Next Previous Contents . ... There are filesystems on disk partitions and other devices, and there is the filesystem as it is presented to you by a running Linux system. In Linux, you ``mount'' a disk filesystem onto the system's filesystem. ... A filesystem imposes some structure on this, and makes it look like files within directories within directories.. ... If the power cuts out at this point, the filesystem will be broken. ... Usually, the kernel mounts its root file system read-only. ...