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I'd like to avoid using ~ for serving user public_html content (apache2). By default the following is working nicely:

http://example.com/~user1

But instead I would have URL looks like:

http://homes.example.com/user1

I understand I could simply use:

AliasMatch ^/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?(.*) /home/$1/public_html/$2

But this only works from the main domain 

http://example.com/user1

and not within a 'homes' subdomains...

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Well it might be more elegant to create a /var/www/home/ folder and create in this folder your user home folders like /var/www/home/user1. Then you make a link to /home/ and in this way your users can access stuff as usual, but you'll keep stuf that is available from the internet there where it belongs. in the /var/www – zwarag Feb 6 at 15:07
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Sounds like you applied the AliasMatch to the wrong virtual host. – mgorven Feb 6 at 19:45

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