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banana989

Member

Registered: 2004-06-03

Posts: 60

lighttpd and public_html

Hello all. I recently installed lighttpd because I didn't feel the need for a big "bulky" http server like Apache... Anyways- I was wondering if there is anything similar to the ~/public_html folder that apache offers its users. My main reason for this is that I don't want to sudo into /home/lighttpd/html/.... to set up my webpage. I would like to do it from my main user account. Thanks for the help !

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: lighttpd and public_html

Enable mod_userdir in the modules,
and then add

userdir.path = "public_html" 

somewhere in your config

more options and info here
http://lighttpd.net/documentation/userdir.html

pelle.k

Member

From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: lighttpd and public_html

Hi.
This is excellent stuff. And, yeah, i'm a lazy bastard who didn't read all the documentation in the first place
I used to 'chmod 0775 html' and add nobody to my additional groups, but this is much more clever.

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