Question

I am facing a similar problem to

Problems with mod_rewrite and mod_userdir

But with WHM and I do not know the best way to start.

mod_rewrite goes to /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ when it should go to the user’s userdir file at /home/user/public_html. The exact error is

File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/index.php, referer: http://<my ip>/~*user*/default.php

I thought about modifying httpd.conf but saw a lot of errors saying re-configuring WHM will erase modifications.

I also looked through the WHM docs and saw the open_basedir tweak: http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/11_32/WHMDocs/TweakPhp

I thought I would ask first to avoid random troubleshooting as I have live sites on the server.

Answer 1

In my .htaccess, I had

RewriteBase /

I changed it to

RewriteBase /~<user>/

Example:

RewriteBase /~myusername/

and now it’s working.