from ~username to /usernam

[Scheisskopf]

users on my server can goto mywebaddress.com/~username

How can i add something to my root directory, so that when they type in mywebaddress.com/username, it goes to mywebaddress.com/username

Thanks.

[duuudie]

wouldn't a simple redirect do the trick?

.htaccess

Redirect /~username http://www.mywebaddress.com/username

[dklynn]

Scheiss,

duuudie's got it right! mod_alias is more appropriate than mod_rewrite (even though less flexible) but this one's simple.

The Redirect directive maps an old URL into a new one. The new URL is returned to the client which attempts to fetch it again with the new address. URL-path a (%-decoded) path; any requests for documents beginning with this path will be returned a redirect error to a new (%-encoded) URL beginning with URL.

Example:

Redirect /service http://foo2.bar.com/service

If the client requests http://myserver/service/foo.txt, it will be told to access http://foo2.bar.com/service/foo.txt instead.

Note: Redirect directives take precedence over Alias and ScriptAlias directives, irrespective of their ordering in the configuration file. Also, URL-path must be a fully qualified URL, not a relative path, even when used with .htaccess files or inside of <Directory> sections.

Thanks, duuudie, for the prod to go find out about that (mod_alias) Redirect!

Regards,

DK

[Scheisskopf]

Thanks. So how could i redirect an image if an image is not found on my page? I have this but it isn't working:

ErrorDocument 404 /shop/img/usr/

Thankyou.

[dklynn]

Scheisskopf,

Thanks. So how could i redirect an image if an image is not found on my page? I have this but it isn't working:

ErrorDocument 404 /shop/img/usr/

To give you a good (correct) answer would require that we know both the link in the page that can't find the image AND the actual location of that image.

The article at datakoncepts.com/seo provides a warning about mod_rewrite's effect on relative links. The use of the HTML BASE tag (giving the actual web location of the page) would resolve the problems generated for relative links.

Regards,

DK

[Scheisskopf]

wouldn't a simple redirect do the trick?

No because it doesn't actually exist as a folder

basically /~username shows a users web page on cpanel

i would like their webpage to show at /username, even though that folder doesn't exist

is this a mod rewrite problem?

Either that or add the username so it becomes a sumdomain:

i.e. from www.site.com/~username to username.site.com

Thankyou.

[dklynn]

Scheisskopf,

i would like their webpage to show at /username, even though that folder doesn't exist

is that a problem?

No, it's not a problem!

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)(/.*)?$ path-to-$1/$2 [L]

That should do the trick (**IF** your usernames are lowercase) and keep the scriptname, too!

Regards,

DK

[dklynn]

Scheisskopf,

pippo's given a link which led me to the Dynamically configured mass virtual hosting documentation where DYNAMIC virtual hosts can be created. You may want to take a look at that.

Regards,

DK