linking public_html to www

[docetes]

hey

i want to be able to allow users to have there own little webspace
like www.example.com/~username

where the public_html would be in each users home folder

Cheers,
Dave

[jtc]

I assume we are talking about Apache2?

Then you need the module userdir loaded. I'm not sure if it is so by default. You can find out what modules you've enabled by looking at the symlinks in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/

Otherwise this is the easiest way to enable it.

a2enmod userdir

To configure the it, edit /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf

You'll have to restart apache for the changes to take effect.