Docroot in Centos 5 under users' home dir

[rwturner]

I installed ispconfig under Centos 5 and left the docroot set to /var/www. This was suggested in a guide if suExec scripts would be used. I simply did not want to lose this option. After creating a new user and creating a site under that user I noticed that that user's site was stored under /var/www/domainname (really a link to web1). This directory was not accessible to the user when logged in to web ftp or regular ftp. Am I missing some thing? I tried a reinstall with a different docroot (~/public_html). Then I created a site under a user and it was placed in the /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/multidoc/edit/web3/web directory. Is there a way to have sites created under a user's /home/username/public_html directory so that they might be able to update their site via ftp. This must be done in Centos 5 as I am working with a dedicated server here. Thanks in advance for the help.

[till]

I guess you missed to enable the administrator option for the user. Please have a look at the first steps guide:

http://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig-2.x-first-steps

[rwturner]

Thanks for the response, Till. I don't see the administrator option for users you are speaking of in the first steps guide. Could you be a bit more specific. Thanks again.

[till]

http://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig-2.x-first-steps-p3

Chapter 2.7.2

And you might to reinstall the system as a docroot ~/public_html is not valid. Please use a absolute path like /var/www as docroot and not a relative path or a path which includes ~