Hi Jeroen,
Not a stupid question. Short answer: you can't set up user web pages to be accessed this way unless you want to change (ruin) a lot of great stuff.
Jeroen wrote:
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> Hey,
> This is problably a stupid question but, where can I put a
> user webpages we-hen I want them to be accessed as
>
www.blabla.com/~username Long answer:
The URL description you show is the same as my ISP uses. But e-smith is designed for the small to medium sized business market. They have improved on many things to make administration fine grained but easy. ISPs often have a 'quick and dirty' approach where one size (sort of) fits thousands.
Users do not have the same account setup that you will find in a typical ISP setup.
I have found e-smith to be very careful about security issues. They apparently chose to create i-bays, access controlled through e-smith-manager settings, as a way of publishing web pages in accordance with a company admin's wishes. As I think about it, generally a company will want their pages published through a single responsible admin, not individual users.
Most security problems are from internal users as far as I know. This may be one reason they chose to have the administrator control user access. However, an ISP must let the user access the account so the individual user has the ability to make changes.
So the answer is: You may make changes to your e-smith to create web pages that have a 'standard' looking personal web page URL. The flexibility is there to do what you want and manage it by using templates. But you would have to write the scripts.
So my answer is, set up your user with their own i-bay. e-smith describes various ways to do that in the manual. Hope this 'explains' it.
Regards,
Paul Miller
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