Creatinguserwebspace

Setting up user web space (on Orac)

Login to orac.orpheusnet.co.uk and carry out the following steps.

• adduser -c "XXX.orpheusweb.co.uk" -d /www/vhosts/XXX.orpheusweb.co.uk/ -s /dev/null ftp.XXX

(where XXX is username required, ie. pvigay)

• passwd ftp.XXX

(enter password)

• cp /www/vhosts/zzzz-TEMPLATE/ /www/vhosts/XXX.orpheusweb.co.uk/
• chown -R ftp.XXX:ftp.XXX /www/vhosts/XXX.orpheusweb.co.uk/
• Now configure apache via vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add the following block

<VirtualHost vhost1.orpheusnet.co.uk>

DocumentRoot "/www/vhosts/XXX.orpheusweb.co.uk"

ServerName XXX.orpheusweb.co.uk

<Directory "/www/vhosts/XXX.orpheusweb.co.uk">

allow from all

Options +Includes

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

• Restart apache via /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart