In this article we will configure separate web directory for each Linux user. We will use Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) web server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server. We will create a web directory “reb” in user saadi’s home directory “/home/saadi” . For each user we can follow the same strategy. You have to log in as a root user to complete the task.
Step-1: create a user
useradd salina
passwd salina
Changing password for user salina.
New password:
Step-2: Create a web directory in user home directory
su salina -c “/home/salina/public_html”
Step-3: Change the httpd.conf file to assign a domain for the user
Now we have to add the following Virtual Host segment at the end of Apache configuration file “/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf” .
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /home/salina/reb
ServerName test.testdomain.com
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/test.testdomain.com-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/test.testdomain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
Make sure NameVirtualHost *:80 this line in uncommented in httpd.conf file.
Step-4: Restart the Apachi.
service httpd restart
