Mini How to for creating user web space (should work on all versions)

You want to allow your users to have public web space accessable by 
http://www.your_domain/~user_name

Download http://khunjarnet.com/downloads/user-web-space/e-smith-user-webspace-0.1-3.noarch.rpm

This rpm by Damien Curtain will install the custom templates.

# rpm -ivh e-smith-user-webspace-0.1-3.noarch.rpm

answer yes to the question

# mkdir /etc/e-smith/skel/user/home/public_html

# pico /etc/e-smith/events/actions/user-create-unix

find the line that says

chmod 0700, "/home/e-smith/files/users/$userName";

and change to

chmod 0755, "/home/e-smith/files/users/$userName";

^x to exit and save

you can put a default index.html in /etc/e-smith/skel/user/home/public_html
that will appear in the users webspace when the user is created

Note: this will only create user webspace for new users. Existing users
will need to be created by hand.

# mkdir /home/e-smith/files/users/$user/home/public_html

# chmod 755 /home/e-smith/files/users/$user


If at any stage you want to disable user webspace

# /sbin/e-smith/config set UserPublicWeb off
# /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
# service httpd restart

or to re-enable

# /sbin/e-smith/config set UserPublicWeb on
# /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
# service httpd restart


Usual disclaimer: You are responsible for any changes you make to your server.