: Have UserDir enabled but also want to rewrite url if called differently I am setting up a new server for our users to use have have personal webspace on. I have in my httpd.conf of apache

@Frith620

I have consulted some older colleagues of mine and we have found that the rule I was looking for was:

RewriteRule ^/users/(.*)$ /~ [R]


If I were using Alias matching I would need:

AliasMatch (^[A-Za-z0-9])

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@Heady270

Here is somebody that managed to use rewrite rules to remove the tilde completely: www.bit-integrity.com/2011/08/getting-rid-of-tilde.html
I've modified what they did to put the "users" directory in.

RewriteEngine On #RewriteLog logs/rewrite.log # Uncomment for rewrite logging #RewriteLogLevel 3 # uncomment for verbose logging
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/users/([^/]+)
RewriteCond /home/%1 -d
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)(.*) /home//public_html/


Here is a thread at WebmasterWorld.com where somebody wanted to redirect away from the version with the tilde: www.webmasterworld.com/apache/4362132.htm
If you wanted to redirect away from the tilde version, you would have to use something like this. These rewrite rules are meant to go into each users .htaccess

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9} /~mysite
RewriteRule (.*) example.com/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(example.com)?$
RewriteRule (.*) example.com/ [R=301,L]

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