Help with setting up users

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jwocky

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I run a web forum and want to give some users the ability to run a personal website from my server. But, I don't want them to use their own domain name. All I want is to make a directory on my server for each user, so that their URL will be: "http://sitename/username/"

What do I have to do in directadmin in order to accomplish this? When I create a new user it asks me for the user's domain, and when I enter my own domain name it tells me that it already exists. What do I enter for domain so that the user's URL will be "http://sitename/username/" ?

Thanks for any help on this.
 
Well I know very little about DA, I have been lurking here a couple weeks watching and learning because I will be adding it to the CPs I offer now.

Anyway if all you want to do is add them to your domain in a sub folder, that is what you do. You can not create them an account using the same domain name, things don't work that way.

I would assume you could, make the folder for them, create a sub-ftp account with that folder as the root/home folder and then give them the user/pass for that login.

That way they can upload their site via FTP and not be able to get into anyone elses stuff.

Like I said I think DA will do this (it should be able to) but as I have not used it yet I could be wrong.
 
Domains must be unique. What might be better is to use subdomains, using that as the domain when creating the user accounts.

usernames.domain.com

All accounts regardless of domain can access their primary domain using http://server_ip/~username

However, you can undo the changes in one of the recent updates of DirectAdmin and allow access through http://domain/~username
But the downside is that usage is not tallied properly.
 
jmstacey said:
Domains must be unique. What might be better is to use subdomains, using that as the domain when creating the user accounts.

usernames.domain.com

All accounts regardless of domain can access their primary domain using http://server_ip/~username

However, you can undo the changes in one of the recent updates of DirectAdmin and allow access through http://domain/~username
But the downside is that usage is not tallied properly.
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Thanks for your reply. Where in directadmin can I "undo the changes" and allow access through /domain/~username?

Also, when you say usage is not tallied properly you mean you can't check on the proper bandwidth/storage usage by each user?

Thanks.
 
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