How does "UserDir" work?

Linux
Apache

I have an issue when trying to access my users' individual web pages
with the typical URL:

http://www.server.com/~username

The problem is that I can access one account as above, but the others
can only be accessed like this:

http://www.server.com/~username/index.html

The file permissions are identical (755) for all accounts.

-RFH

On 2008-04-03, Ramon F Herrera <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>
> Linux
> Apache
>
> I have an issue when trying to access my users' individual web pages
> with the typical URL:
>
> http://www.server.com/~username
>
> The problem is that I can access one account as above, but the others
> can only be accessed like this:
>
> http://www.server.com/~username/index.html
>
> The file permissions are identical (755) for all accounts.
>
> -RFH
>
Are all home directories owned by the same group, or is there a group
for each user? Does index.html exist for the one user that you can
access without ~username/index.html ? Are any of the home directories
located on a FAT or NTFS filesystem?

On Apr 3, 12:55 pm, Bill Marcum <marcumb...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On 2008-04-03, Ramon F Herrera <ra...@conexus.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Linux
> > Apache
>
> > I have an issue when trying to access my users' individual web pages
> > with the typical URL:
>
> > http://www.server.com/~username
>
> > The problem is that I can access one account as above, but the others
> > can only be accessed like this:
>
> > http://www.server.com/~username/index.html
>
> > The file permissions are identical (755) for all accounts.
>
> > -RFH
>
> Are all home directories owned by the same group, or is there a group
> for each user? Does index.html exist for the one user that you can
> access without ~username/index.html ? Are any of the home directories
> located on a FAT or NTFS filesystem?

Thanks for your help, Bill.

> Are all home directories owned by the same group, or is there a group
> for each user?

I am using Linux defaults. There is a group for each user.

> Does index.html exist for the one user that you can
> access without ~username/index.html ?

Yes, it does.

This is a pure Linux system. All filesystems are native (ext3).

While I was typing this, I ran some tests suggested by your tips, and
I found the problem: the root file has to be named 'index.html', it
cannot be named 'index.htm'. I can deal with it now, I just hated the
apparent inconsistent behavior.

Thanks!

-Ramon