[BlueOnyx:24225] Re: Personal web pages in 5210R

[Ernie]

Hi Micheal,
so how do I intercept the http://FQDN/~username requests, and force them to
redirect to a subdomain?

I presume I can make a symbolic link to the subdomain folder that they can
still see as the public_html directory they are use to uploading to.

These people are typically using things like Dreamweaver/GoLive and other web creation
apps, which have a URL set for the upload to the server, they don't
necessarily know what they are doing other than page layout for their stuff.

I have tried over the years to get them to use something like Wordpress to
make my life easier, but no takers so far!


- Ernie.


> Hi Ernie,
> 
> > How does one go about adding personal web pages in 5210R like you can do
> > in 5209R and prior versions.
> > 
> > There use to be a web directory in each users home they could put pages
> > into, that seems to be missing in 5210R and access via a url like"
> > http://example.com/~bob or https://www.example.com/~ernie
> 
> Sorry, but that feature is not implemented in 5210R and it won't be
> coming back.
> 
> In order to work, "User Owned Webs" required relaxed permissions on
> directories all the way down to the ~username/web directories in order
> for Apache to be able to access the webpages there. Which - from a
> security point of view - has always been rather uncool.
> 
> When I introduced Chrooted Jails to 5210R I had to enforce very strict
> permissions and ownerships on all User and Vsite directories. So it was
> clear that this was in no shape or form compatible with "User Owned Webs".
> 
> Weighting the benefits of both I had to make a choice:
> 
> - No Jails, but continue with "User Owned Webs"
> - Jails, but no "User Owned Webs"
> 
> That choice then was rather easy, as Chrooted Jails benefit everyone and
> "User Owned Webs" were something that was already on it's way out more
> than a decade ago. Additionally: "User Owned Webs" had already stopped
> working for Vsites that had PHP-FPM enabled, because we couldn't provide
> PHP-parsing for them. Meaning: If a Vsite had PHP-FPM enabled, then
> "User Owned Webs" automatically got turned off on 5209R.
> 
> The alternative to this is to create a "User Sub Domain" for each user.
> This functionality has been retained for 5210R and can be activated with
> one click. The obvious downside being that you'd need to have DNS A
> records for that, which the GUI can handle automatically. But which is
> naturally more complicated if your DNS is external.
> 
> -- 
> With best regards
> 
> Michael Stauber
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