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[vanHelsing]

Running apache in my debian. When i add user, new user url as we well know is http://myserver.com/~newuser/

Now, how can i get rid of ~ ?

I want it like this:
http://myserver.com/newuser/

[probonic]

I think you would probably have to use mod_rewrite to do that. Unfortunately I don't really have any experience with mod_rewrite so I cannot tell you exactly how to do it.

There would really be no other way of doing it because the "~" before the username is what tells Apache to actually look in "/home/username/public_html" or whatever. If the tilde is not there, as far as Apache is concerned you're trying to go to a directory called that.

Maybe someone else here can tell you how to do it using mod_rewrite...

[Sizzly]

mod_rewrite via .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^~(.*)$ $1 [L,NC]

note: untested!