Hi, have you ever surfed a web site that has a url like this: http://www.somedomain.com/~bob/ Well the "~bob" is actually the username of a user on that system, the web-server actually reads the html files (or any other type if your server is configured for that) from the public_html directory in his/her/other home drive. So in short, you can let any users of your system create their own little web spaces and have people access them. There is some configuring that has to happen on the web server and this prevents any user from just creating a public_html directory and creating a web-site. Hope this helps Q On Wednesday 13 February 2002 18:44, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
In several directories, I have a subdirectory called public_html. It is empty in each directory in which it appears. What is is for?
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