On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Vincent Danen wrote:

> This was done, IIRC, to allow people to have a ~/public_html/ directory and
> allow apache to enter the home directory so as to read ~/public_html/ (which
> would allow someone to do something like http://yoursite.com/~preador/).
> That's pretty much the reasoning for it IIRC.
> nothing stopping you from doing a higher security level or modifying the
> defaults.

I always created a symlink in the user's home directory such as ln -s
/var/www/html/user /home/user/(public_html|html|www|whatever).  I always
thought that was a rather useful solution, but I'm open to criticism.

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