User Dir

Has anyone any ideas on a problem I have?

I am running Apache HTTP server 2.0.47.

I have created a 'info.php' file - when I copy this file to 'C:\program files\apache group\apache2\htdocs', I can see the PHP Version 4.3.3 info page when I enter 'http://localhost:8080/info.php' into my browser.

However, I have then copied 'info.php' to 'C:\Document and Settings\John Leggett\My Documents\My WebSite' and have then entered 'http://localhost:8080/John Leggett/index.php' into my browser and the page cannot be found and I don't see the PHP Version 4.3.3 info page?

In the Apache 'httpd.conf' file, I have the 'UserDir' entry to read User Dir "C:\Document and Settings\John Leggett\My Documents\My WebSite".

I am running Windows XP Professional. 'John Leggett' is my user name.

If anyone could assist with this, I would be very grateful.

Unless I'm mistaken, the UserDir directive doesn't work with Apache under a Windows Environment. On Win32, there's no nice way to figure out a user's home directory.

I do believe you're mistaken. I came here looking for the same answer using Apache2 in Win, however it's not because I can't set or access the user account with plain html pages, it's the PHP module that doesn't seem to be configured correctly. In the past using Apache 1.3 I believe I had it all working, but lost it in a HD crash.
I was hoping someone would have an answer like setting the UserDir in the php.ini file correctly. I have:
user_dir = "My Documents/WWW"
There is always the possibility it's an Apache2/PHP issue, but I don't want to reinstall Apache 1.3 to try.

PS: This Invisionboard reply page doesn't seem to work well with Mozilla.

Hi,

I use a Classic Standalone Apache 2.0.55 on Windows XP pro Service Pack2, my test page http://localhostort/~username/test.html do work, so I guess
your issue is not related to PHP, but u may rather use forward slashes '/' and NOT back slahshes '\' in your httpd.conf UserDir directive .... U can try :
UserDir "My Documents/My Website"
UserDir "My Documents/public_html"
UserDir "C:/Documents and Settings/*/My Documents/test"
UserDir "C:/Documents and Settings/*/My Documents/My Website"

strange thing is that : UserDir enabled cause server to fail when trying to start ...

I hope this would help u .

Steve