1======= 2userdir 3======= 4 5------------------- 6Module: mod_userdir 7------------------- 8 9:Author: Jan Kneschke 10:Date: $Date: 2004/08/29 09:43:49 $ 11:Revision: $Revision: 1.1 $ 12 13:abstract: 14 The userdir module ... 15 16.. meta:: 17 :keywords: lighttpd, userdir 18 19.. contents:: Table of Contents 20 21Description 22=========== 23 24The userdir module provides a simple way to link user-based directories into the global namespace of the webserver. 25 26Requests in the form ``/~user/page.html`` are rewritten to take the file ``page.html`` from the home directory of the user. 27If ``userdir.path`` is set, the path will be appended to the home directory 28building the classic mapping of: :: 29 30 userdir.path = "public_html" 31 32 URL: http://www.example.org/~jan/index.html 33 Path: /home/jan/public_html/ 34 35To control which users should be able to use this feature you can set a list of usernames to include or exclude. 36 37In case your mapping is independent of /etc/passwd you can use 38``userdir.basepath``: :: 39 40 userdir.path = "htdocs" 41 userdir.basepath = "/var/www/users/" 42 43 URL: http://www.example.org/~jan/index.html 44 Path: /var/www/users/jan/htdocs/index.html 45 46Options 47======= 48 49userdir.path (required option) 50 usually it should be set to "public_html" to take ~/public_html/ as the document root 51 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) 53 Example: :: 54 55 userdir.path = "public_html" 56 57userdir.exclude-user 58 list of usernames which may not use this feature 59 60 Default: empty (all users may use it) 61 Example: :: 62 63 userdir.exclude-user = ( "root", "postmaster" ) 64 65 66userdir.include-user 67 if set, only users from this list may use the feature 68 69 Default: empty (all users may use it) 70 71userdir.basepath 72 if set, don't check /etc/passwd for homedir 73