This has nothing to do with WP. You need to configure Apache either using Directory Aliases, or better yet Virtual Hosts.
Check out the following links for more info:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/urlmapping.html#user
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/
Regards
Hi.. um.. I have the home directory stuff working. Perhaps I wasn’t clear.
The URL is http://www.wingfoot.org/~ges/ this *WORKS*! Honest–it does!
Now, someone tried to link to me, but their software (Blogger) changes the ~ to a %7E (% 7 E in case it’s not showing), and tries to pass that on as the URL. Instead of WP reading the %7E, and going “Oh yeah, that’s a ~” it’s going “Oh this isn’t the right URL, so this is a 404!”
Hence my original question… Thank you for your reply, however. 🙂
I’m going to see if I can recreate this:
http://www.wingfoot.org/~ges/ <–this works
http://www.wingfoot.org/%7Eges/ <–this doesn’t…
I realize that your website works with ~. The problem is that most systems will usually translate things like ~ ( ) and other characters into their ASCII value. Thats just how it works.
You could just as easily fix this by creating a “virtual host” or a subdomain line ges.wingfoot.org.
It is generally inadvisable to have “~” in the URL unless you’re using the website on an internal network.
Regards
I understand your opinion on ~ in URLs. It is, however, the default Userdir behavior on an Apache installation. The %7E and ~ are transparent to Apache–it’s specifically WP that is reading %7E and ~ as being different. :-/
But, I thank you for your reply. I guess I’m going to have to live with WP’s behaviour on this for now.
Thanks!
Was this ever resolved? It’s plaguing me as well.
Basically what I’m seeing happen is that a REQUEST_URI shows up as /%7Ewls/blog/, and while Apache it more than happy to deal with that, WordPress has some brain damage in recognizing that a URL with %7E in it is the same as one with a tilde in it.
Like you, any links using a tilde work:
http://www.wwco.com/~wls/blog/
And, like you, any links using the escape encoding do not:
http://www.wwco.com/%7Ewls/blog/
Obviously Apache is delivering up a WordPress template, meaning it’s found the directory. But it’s the WordPress code that can’t figure out the URL to pull up the correct entries.
I’ve tried poking around with mod_rewrite rules as well as WordPress’s PHP code. At the moment I’m not having much luck, as I think the page determination code happens well before I get around to fixing the string to a familiar form.
I came up with a simple one like hack that solved it, see
http://www.wwco.com/~wls/blog/2006/11/19/wordpress-tilde-hack-for-home-directories/ for more detail.
The gist is, inside index.php, insert this as the first line within the PHP tags:
$_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] = preg_replace( “/%7[Ee]/”, “~”, $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] );
