> Hi folks, > I have a few questions about how to set up users on my OBSD 4.3 box. > > I've created a user (Stephanie) on the box, and I've added her to the > /etc/ftpchroot file so she can upload stuff to her directory; now I > just want her to be able to reach whatever she uploads (which probably > will be just a bunch of files) via Apache and that's where I'm > stumped. > > I was expecting to be able to reach her stuff via the typical *nix > http://server/~stephanie, but that didn't work. > > 1.) Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? > 2.) Inside the /var/www directory, there's a "user" directory. What's that > for? > 3.) Do I need to, or would it be advantageous to, modify the > httpd.conf file? What sort of entries might be helpful? > > Thank you, > Ed > >
Howdy, 1) By default, apache is chrooted to /var/www , so there is no way for your web user to get to her home directory. 2) Not confident enough in my knowledge to answer that accurately ;) 3) Although it would be, imho, a bad idea, you could use httpd.conf to change the ServerRoot to /home to probably achieve what you want, but it is a big security compromise.
