Apache RewriteRule for each User directory

Question

I have two directories in each of my users' home folders: .html-data and .cgi-bin. The first one contains static (.html) files, the second one contains files for dynamic document generation.

Each user should be able to publish the content of the .html-data folder on http://myhost.com/~<username>/ and the content of the .cgi-bin folder on http://myhost.com/~<username>/cgi-bin/. The scripts for dynamic content creation should be executed as the user who provides them (e.g. ~steve/cgi-bin/test.cgi should be executed as user steve).

For that I configured the following configuration for the userdir module of Apache 2.4:

UserDir .html-data
UserDir disabled root

<Directory "/home/*/.html-data">
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /~username/
    RewriteRule "^/cgi-bin/(.*)" "../../.cgi-bin/$1"
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    Require method GET POST OPTIONS
</Directory>

<Directory "/home/*/.cgi-bin">
    Options ExecCGI
    SetHandler cgi-script
    Satisfy any
</Directory>

However, this does not work. The RewriteRule seems wrong. How can I refer to the user's .cgi-bin directory?

This is the error log:

[Thu Aug 04 20:14:17 2016] [trace3] mod_rewrite.c(477): [client 10.0.2.2:44058] 10.0.2.2 - - [myhost.com/sid#19f4a48][rid#1a639b0/initial] [perdir /home/*/.html-data/] add path info postfix: /home/steve/.html-data/cgi-bin -> /home/steve/.html-data/cgi-bin/hello.cgi
[Thu Aug 04 20:14:17 2016] [trace3] mod_rewrite.c(477): [client 10.0.2.2:44058] 10.0.2.2 - - [myhost.com/sid#19f4a48][rid#1a639b0/initial] [perdir /home/*/.html-data/] applying pattern '^/cgi-bin/(.*)' to uri '/home/steve/.html-data/cgi-bin/hello.cgi'
[Thu Aug 04 20:14:17 2016] [trace1] mod_rewrite.c(477): [client 10.0.2.2:44058] 10.0.2.2 - - [myhost.com/sid#19f4a48][rid#1a639b0/initial] [perdir /home/*/.html-data/] pass through /home/steve/.html-data/cgi-bin

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 19 '16 at 09:38

I solved it. I am using mpm_itk now. Combined with rewrite rules, one can define the user executing the scripts:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule "^.*" - [E=ITKUID:http]
RewriteRule "^/~root.*" - [L,R=404]
RewriteRule "^/~([a-z]+)/cgi-bin(.*)" "/home/$1/.cgi-bin$2" [L,E=ITKUID:$1]
RewriteRule "^/~([a-z]+)/?(.*)" "/home/$1/.html-data/$2" [L,E=ITKUID:http]
AssignUserIDExpr %{reqenv:ITKUID}

Apache RewriteRule for each User directory

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