Re: httpd and ~user directories

[Reyk Floeter]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 10:33:52PM +0100, Tor Houghton wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I'm wondering if there is a plan to add support for ~user style URL 
 expansion to the new httpd.
 
 I've tried fudging it for 'someuser' by adding the following to the default
 server within /etc/httpd.conf, but to no avail:
 
   location /~someuser/* {
   root /htdocs/users/someuser
   }
 
 (I also tried creating a directory '/htdocs/~someuser', but that didn't work
 either, thankfully.)
 
 I'm running 5.6 (not -current; so I should probably do that), but looking at
 the current commits, I can't see that this is supported right now?
 
 Or am I doing it wrong?
 

- User directories are not explicitly supported and have to be  
within the chroot - somewhere in /var/www.  

- For example, you can currently create user directories the following way:

# mkdir /var/www/users/~reyk
# ln -s /var/www/users/reyk ~reyk/public_html
# echo Hallo  /var/www/users/~reyk/index.html

location /~* {
root /users
}
  
- For your snippet, you would need an upcoming feature from chrisz@ to
strip elements from the request path (so it can be done without
rewrite/regex).

Currently, a client requesting http://somehost/~someuser/ would end up
in /var/www/htdocs/users/someuser/~someuser/ - which does not exist.

location /~someuser/* {
root /htdocs/users/someuser
}

You can fix the path by stripping the last path element so that it
turns into /var/www/htdocs/users/someuser.

location /~someuser/* {
root { /htdocs/users/someuser, strip 1 }
}

Reyk

Re: httpd and ~user directories

[Tor Houghton]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 11:29:32PM +0100, Reyk Floeter wrote:
 
 - User directories are not explicitly supported and have to be  
 within the chroot - somewhere in /var/www.  
 
 - For example, you can currently create user directories the following way:
 
 # mkdir /var/www/users/~reyk
 # ln -s /var/www/users/reyk ~reyk/public_html
 # echo Hallo  /var/www/users/~reyk/index.html
 
   location /~* {
   root /users
   }
   
 - For your snippet, you would need an upcoming feature from chrisz@ to
 strip elements from the request path (so it can be done without
 rewrite/regex).
 
 [ snip ]

Thank you for your kind way of telling me I was doing it wrong! :-)

Until chrisz@' commit (and when I'm running -current), I'll fudge the
directory structure by creating symbolic links:

location /~* {
root /htdocs/users
}

Then in /htdocs/users, for each user's directory:

drwxr-xr-x   2 1017  www  512 Mar  4  2013 user1
drwxr-x--x   5 1009  www 1024 Jul 20  2013 user2
..
drwxr-x--x   6 1004  www  512 May 30  2014 userN

I do:

$ ln -s user1 ./~user1
$ ln -s user2 ./~user2
..
$ ln -s userN ./~userN

This seems indeed to do the (ugly) trick.

Many thanks for the super quick reply!

Tor

httpd and ~user directories

[Tor Houghton]

Hello,

I'm wondering if there is a plan to add support for ~user style URL 
expansion to the new httpd.

I've tried fudging it for 'someuser' by adding the following to the default
server within /etc/httpd.conf, but to no avail:

location /~someuser/* {
root /htdocs/users/someuser
}

(I also tried creating a directory '/htdocs/~someuser', but that didn't work
either, thankfully.)

I'm running 5.6 (not -current; so I should probably do that), but looking at
the current commits, I can't see that this is supported right now?

Or am I doing it wrong?

Kind regards,

Tor