Apache UserDir in CentOS 7

Quick steps to set it up (I assume you have apache installed):

edit userdir.conf

1	# nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/userdir.conf

#
# UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.
#
# The path to the end user account 'public_html' directory must be
# accessible to the webserver userid.  This usually means that ~userid
# must have permissions of 711, ~userid/public_html must have permissions
# of 755, and documents contained therein must be world-readable.
# Otherwise, the client will only receive a "403 Forbidden" message.
#
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    #
    # UserDir is disabled by default since it can confirm the presence
    # of a username on the system (depending on home directory
    # permissions).
    #
    #UserDir disabled

#
    # To enable requests to /~user/ to serve the user's public_html
    # directory, remove the "UserDir disabled" line above, and uncomment
    # the following line instead:
    # 
    UserDir public_html
</IfModule>

#
# Control access to UserDir directories.  The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
<Directory "/home/*/public_html">
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    #Require method GET POST OPTIONS
    Require all granted
</Directory>

# UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home

# directory if a ~user request is received.

# The path to the end user account 'public_html' directory must be

# accessible to the webserver userid. This usually means that ~userid

# must have permissions of 711, ~userid/public_html must have permissions

# of 755, and documents contained therein must be world-readable.

# Otherwise, the client will only receive a "403 Forbidden" message.

# UserDir is disabled by default since it can confirm the presence

# of a username on the system (depending on home directory

# permissions).

#UserDir disabled

# To enable requests to /~user/ to serve the user's public_html

# directory, remove the "UserDir disabled" line above, and uncomment

# the following line instead:

UserDir public_html

</IfModule>

# Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example

# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.

AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes

Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec

#Require method GET POST OPTIONS

Require all granted

</Directory>

restart Apache

Shell

# systemctl restart httpd.service

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# systemctl restart httpd.service

setup your directory
as normal user enter:

# mkdir /home/your_username/public_html

# chmod 711 /home/your_username

# chown your_username:your_username /home/your_username/public_html

# chmod 755 /home/your_username/public_html

if you use SELinux as root enter:

Shell

# setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs true # chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /home/your_username/public_html

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# setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs true
# chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /home/your_username/public_html
create simple html page

Shell

# nano /home/your_username/public_html/index.html

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# nano /home/your_username/public_html/index.html

enter this:

PHP

<html> <body> Hello! </body> </html>

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<html>
<body>
Hello!
</body>
</html>
change ownership of file

Shell

# chmod 644 /home/your_username/public_html/index,html

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# chmod 644 /home/your_username/public_html/index,html
start your browser and enter this address:

Shell

http://localhost/~your_username/

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http://localhost/~your_username/

and voila! 😉

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