How to Enable Userdir (Public_html) in Ubuntu, Linuxmint and Fedora

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 Question: How  to  How  to  Enable Userdir ?

Answer

• For  Debian/Ubuntu/Mint

1- First install userdir module:

apt-get install apache2.2-common

root@Ub11:~# a2enmod userdir 
Enabling module userdir.
To to activate the new configuration, you need to run:
 /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
root@Ub11:~#

2- Edit the  file  /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf

AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec

to

AllowOverrid  All

Options ExecCGI

3- Make public_html on your home

mkdir public_html 

and  put   your  files  inside  (index.php  html  cgi …)

• For Fedora 14/15:

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

#make it comment

#  UserDir disable

#and  uncomment  uncomment

UserDir public_html

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
 AllowOverride  All

Options ExecCGI

<Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
 </Limit>
 <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
 Order deny,allow
 Deny from all
 </LimitExcept>
 </Directory>

save  and  exit and  restart apache

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

 Stopping httpd: [  OK  ]

Starting httpd: [  OK}

now  open  your  browser  http://ip/~username/

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