On Tuesday 20 September 2005 07:44, Carl Hartung wrote: <snipped> Thanks Robert, I found the problem. The default Apache2 installation on 10.0 RC1 omitted the section, below, from /etc/apache2/default-server.conf. When I inserted it and restarted Apache2, my ~/public_html directory became available. - Carl -- excerpt -- # UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home # directory if a ~user request is received. # # To disable it, simply remove userdir from the list of modules in APACHE_MODULES # in /etc/sysconfig/apache2. # <IfModule mod_userdir.c> # Note that the name of the user directory ("public_html") cannot simply be # changed here, since it is a compile time setting. The apache package # would have to be rebuilt. You could work around by deleting # /usr/sbin/suexec, but then all scripts from the directories would be # executed with the UID of the webserver. UserDir public_html # The actual configuration of the directory is in # /etc/apache2/mod_userdir.conf. Include /etc/apache2/mod_userdir.conf # You can, however, change the ~ if you find it awkward, by mapping e.g. # http://www.example.com/users/karl-heinz/ --> /home/karl-heinz/public_html/ #AliasMatch ^/users/([a-zA-Z0-9-_.]*)/?(.*) /home/$1/public_html/$2 </IfModule> -- end excerpt --