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Brad Bishop Author

Level 1

10 points

Apache2: UserDir Sites

On Mountain Lion w/ Server installed:

All I want is for:

http://localhost/~user

to work

I have played with UserDir setting in httpd.conf (it's actually in /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf - but I've played with moving it around from there to httpd.conf, etc.)

For the life of me I can't get it to work.

ownership/perms for Sites:
drwxr-xr-x 3 user staff 102 Jul 29 10:04 Sites

http://localhost/~user results in a 404

The error in the logs is:

[Tue Jul 31 17:13:21 2012] [error] [client fe80::226:8ff:fee1:382] File does not exist: /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default/~user

This has to be stupid simple but I'm not seeing it.

mod_userdir is there and being loaded (not commented out).

I see nothing that would stop this but, obviously, it's not working (unless it's the group on the Sites directory).

Any help is appreciated.

From /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf:

# UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home

# directory if a ~user request is received. Note that you must also set

# the default access control for these directories, as in the example below.

UserDir Sites

# Users might not be in /Users/*/Sites, so use user-specific config files.

Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf

RegisterUserSite customized-users

</IfModule>

That tells me that it should just do the UserDir Sites bit. I've tried it with/without the user.conf file which is included at the bottom.

What am I missing?

Thanks,

Brad

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Jul 31, 2012 2:18 PM

20 replies

Feb 5, 2014 7:51 AM in response to Blaidd Drwg

Shout it from the rooftops!!!!

uncomment line 532 (Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf)

/Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf

immediately fixed user web directories on Maverick server (after I had the userdir stuff setup)

Jun 14, 2014 7:56 PM in response to Brad Bishop

This is not working for me with 10.9.3 and server admin 3.1.2 on a brand new machine. I had previously used the methods described above but there now seems to be one more problem. After defining the user .conf files and enabling the include of httpd-userdir.conf I now get the meassage:

Jun 14 12:04:29 macpro2014.local Server[67199]: XSWebConfig:ERROR:

Syntax error on line 10 of /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf:

Invalid command 'UserDir', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

It appears that mod_userdir is no longer enabled by default. This should be straightforward, but who knows.

Jun 14, 2014 8:43 PM in response to Dave Rocks

Ok. In httpd_server_app.conf I enabled line:

LoadModule apple_userdir_module ${SERVER_INSTALL_PATH_PREFIX}/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_userdir_apple.so

and

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

by removing #.

I had already created the 'Sites' directory in my user accounts and the username.conf files in etc/apache2/users directory. I used the same files I've used the lst few years.

Under simple tests everything appears fine.

simonpie

Level 1

43 points

Apr 20, 2016 6:27 PM in response to Blaidd Drwg

Hi,

I just tried what @Blaidd Drwg suggested in El Capitan as all other solution did not work.

Now I get the following message :

Websites are turned off.

An administrator can turn them on using the Server application

Any Idea what I can do ?

simonpie

Level 1

43 points

Apr 21, 2016 4:46 PM in response to simonpie

Finally got it.

So I use server app on El Capitan. I followed the traditionnal instructions to activate userdir by modifying files in /etc/apache2 ...

But it would not be picked up by apache. Finally, I discovered in the plist, thanks to this post, that apache, or web services, once the server app is installed uses the following config file :

/Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf

So I went ahead and modified this file in the standard ways (activating modules and including config files) and Tada ! Now my user dir work.

Apache2: UserDir Sites