Custom settings for temporary url's (/~user)

[martinostlund]

Hello.

Before our customers have pointed their domain to our control, their website is hosted on the default http://server-ip/~user

This tilde-user setup is default of /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:

    AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/.*)* /home/$1/public_html$2
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html

We need to have a <Directory>AllowOverride All</Directory> setting on /~user, but setting this in the httpd-vhosts.conf only affects the DocumentRoot, which is wrong.

Is there any way to make / allow specific values for /~user configuration?

Regards,
Martin

 

[scsi]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_userdir.html

You should just update your hosts file on your computer though. Do not rely on ~/username

 

[zEitEr]

@Martin,

Why don't you give customers temporary domains then?

username.hosting-company.com

Hello.

Before our customers have pointed their domain to our control, their website is hosted on the default http://server-ip/~user

Regards,
Martin

 

[NoBaloney2]

As user scsi points out, changing the hosts file on the local computer (the ones you and/or your client use to test/access the site) is the best way to go. Why? Because WordPress and some other CMS applications will only work if the URL is the same as insalled when setting up the CMS.

Jeff