how to set up apache user home directory (Public_html)

Apache 2 user home directory

First create a directory with name public_html in your home directory (user directory

[ismail@localhost ~]$ mkdir public_html

Now open you apache server config file and edit to enable public_html for that uncomment UserDir public_html and comment UserDir disabled and also uncomments the lines below from where Directory start to ends

[ismail@localhost ~]$ sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Now next step to save the configuration file and setting up permissions on public_html folder in your home directory. Our home directory need permission of 711 and public_html permission of 755 that we set by following commands.

[ismail@localhost ~]$ chmod 711 ~ismail/

where ismail is username you have your own you username you can check that by issuing command

[ismail@localhost ~]$ whoami

Alright now next step is to set permission of public_html

[ismail@localhost ~]$ chmod 755 public_html/

If SElinux is turned on you have to give extra permission on public_html folder

[ismail@localhost ~]$ sudo chcon -t httpd_sys_content_t public_html

last thing we have to do is comment welcome file in the following location

[ismail@localhost ~]$ vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf
Comment this whole file

Now we good to go just restart you web server

[ismail@localhost ~]$ sudo service httpd restart

Now open you web browser to test our public_html

[ismail@localhost ~]$ firefox localhost/~ismail &

or just simple type in your url

http://localhost/~ismail/

Last thing i wanna tell you is in whole this tutorial ismail was my username