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The first time i see an URL contains (~) ,i imagined ..
what the (~) may point to in a real URL??
Q: The first time i see an URL contains (~) ,i imagined .. what
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The first time i see an URL contains (~) ,i imagined ..
what the (~) may point to in a real URL??
The ~ symbol is perhaps most commonly used by Apache’s mod_userdir. It allows local users on the same machine running the web server to expose a subdirectory of their home directory to the web via Apache. For example, given the URL
http://www.example.com/~joeuser, an Apache server might look up joeuser’s home directory (usually/home/joeuser) and append another path component to it (usuallypublic_html, resulting in the path/home/joeuser/public_html). This directory will then map to the/~joeuserURI.It’s become common to use URIs like this in more modern MVC-based web applications to refer to a user’s profile. For example,
/~joeusermight display the profile of thejoeuseruser in some web application. The meaning comes from the Apache-style URIs — you are going to that user’s “home page,” whatever that might be.