Nginx userdir list

Drakonen — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:09:14 +0000

Our Nginx server was without a proper ~user listing. While this is default in most apache configs, its not in Nginx. My friend Dominiek made a hack with a ruby script. This would have worked fine if had some more work but memory usage was pretty bad (especially for big files).

So, I started on a proper Nginx way to solve this and harness it’s power. By diving into the config I figured it out:
# the [a-zA-Z0-9] is for the greedy . location ~ /~([a-zA-Z0-9]*)/(.*) { root /home/; autoindex on; index index.html;rewrite ^/~([a-zA-Z0-9]*)/(.*)$ /$1/www/$2 break; }

Put this small snippet into the server config where you want userdirs enabled and enjoy your apache like mod_userdir.

Edit: made it work with subdirs
Edit: took advice of beate (see comments)

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Nginx userdir list