AliasMatch - or something else???

I'm not sure if I'm on the right track here - is AliasMatch what I need?

I want to redirect every users home page so that it ends up at:
/user/ instead of /~user.

I did this one and it's fine:

Alias /user_a/ "/Volumes/UserData/dml_users/user_a/Sites/"
<Directory "/Volumes/UserData/dml_users/user_a/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

What would I use (using these exact pathnames) to get the same result for every user in that folder?

If anyone can help I'd appreciate it and it will be passed on!

Yeah, I think AliasMatch'd probably do the trick. Sample syntax follows:

AliasMatch ^/icons(.*) /usr/local/apache/icons$1

Thanks for the post! Sorry to be obtuse, but could you explain or point me towards any docs that tell exactly what the expressions in that example mean? I don't have any experience of regular expressions and would like to find a primer or something relating to their use in Apache.

You should be able to google "regular expression" or "regex" and find a million tutorials that'll help you out. To get you started, the expression I listed above looks for a string that begins with "/icons" plus any number of other characters (of any type). The ^ means "begins with," the . means "any character of any type," and the * means "any number." The parentheses group everything after "/icons" together and save the resulting match in the variable $1.

So an icon referenced as "/icons/my_icon.gif" would be aliased to "/usr/local/apache/icons/my_icon.gif" because everything after "/icons" is stuck in $1, which is appended to "/usr/local/apache/icons".

Thanks very much !