Well poop.  After all that, it appears as if indexdir doesn't take an RE, 
so I can't say IndexDir /home/*/public_html.

Oh well, off to write a config generating script that will :-)


At 06:19 PM 4/6/00 , Steve Thomas wrote:
>Bruce Bowler wrote:
> >
> > I'm beginning to remember now why I used the http method on my old 
> server...
> >
> > Does anyone have an example config file that uses the fs method and deals
> > properly with ~user urls (specifically the ReplaceRule needed to get a
> > valid URL into the database)?
>
>Yes: assuming your user web docs are in /home/user/public_html, use
>these two lines:
>
>ReplaceRules replace "/home/" "/~"
>ReplaceRules replace "/public_html/" "/"
>
>These will convert /home/user/public_html/somefile.html to
>/~user/somefile.html
>
>
>Steve


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