10 :Date: $Date: 2004/08/29 09:43:49 $
11 :Revision: $Revision: 1.1 $
14 The userdir module ...
17 :keywords: lighttpd, userdir
19 .. contents:: Table of Contents
24 The userdir module provides a simple way to link user-based directories into the global namespace of the webserver.
26 Requests in the form ``/~user/page.html`` are rewritten to take the file ``page.html`` from the home directory of the user.
27 If ``userdir.path`` is set, the path will be appended to the home directory
28 building the classic mapping of: ::
30 userdir.path = "public_html"
32 URL: http://www.example.org/~jan/index.html
33 Path: /home/jan/public_html/
35 To control which users should be able to use this feature you can set a list of usernames to include or exclude.
37 In case your mapping is independent of /etc/passwd you can use
38 ``userdir.basepath``: ::
40 userdir.path = "htdocs"
41 userdir.basepath = "/var/www/users/"
43 URL: http://www.example.org/~jan/index.html
44 Path: /var/www/users/jan/htdocs/index.html
49 userdir.path (required option)
50 usually it should be set to "public_html" to take ~/public_html/ as the document root
52 Default: unset (mod_userdir disabled; set it to "" if you want the home directory to be the document root as it was the default before 1.4.19)
55 userdir.path = "public_html"
58 list of usernames which may not use this feature
60 Default: empty (all users may use it)
63 userdir.exclude-user = ( "root", "postmaster" )
67 if set, only users from this list may use the feature
69 Default: empty (all users may use it)
72 if set, don't check /etc/passwd for homedir