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Per-VirtualHost UserDirectory?

James

14 June 2018, 19:12

I am running a webserver, which serves ~/public_html/ as http://www.example.com/~user/

I wish to also/instead serve ~/html_archive as http://archive.example.com/~user/

However, adding a UserDirectory directive into a VirtualHost:

# /etc/hiawatha/vhosts/archive.conf
VirtualHost {
        Hostname = archive.website
        WebsiteRoot = /var/www/null
        UserWebsite = yes
        UserDirectory = html_archive
}

is a "Syntax error in vhosts//archive.conf on line 5.".

Is there a known workaround?
I can recompile with a patch, if necessary.

James

14 June 2018, 19:14

("UserWebsite" was a typo in my transcribing; NOT in the actual config file. The "line 5" agrees because of the informational header I added to my transcription; but hiawatha -k was actually choking on UserDirectory, which I confirmed by a few comment-uncomment tests.)

James

14 June 2018, 20:10

Well, I found an OK workaround, for anyone stumbling across this thread

basically just "roll your own" UserWebsites
downside is that it requires manual intervention for each user
However, it seems to still work with CGIWrapper

# /etc/hiawatha/vhosts/archive.conf
VirtualHost {
        Hostname = archive.website.com
        WebsiteRoot = /var/www/archive
        UserWebsites = no
        ShowIndex = yes
}

and then just

mv -v ~user/html_archive '/var/www/archive/~user'
ln -vs '/var/www/archive/~user' ~user/html_archive

Hugo Leisink

14 June 2018, 20:53

Ok. So, all is working as desired now?

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