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Ever wanted each user on your server to have their own web directory? I wanted users on my server to have access to the public_html directory in their home directory so that they could display content at http://www.mydomain.com/~USERNAME. How do you do this?

1. Edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
2. Find the section that looks like this:

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#UserDir is now a module #UserDir public_html #UserDir disabled root   #<Directory /home/*/public_html> # AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit # Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec #</Directory>

3. Make it look like this:
   

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   #UserDir is now a module UserDir public_html #UserDir disabled root   <Directory /home/*/public_html> AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec </Directory>

4. Sit back and relish in your own glory knowing that you have just accomplished something done today!

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