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# 8  
Old 10-15-2010
Now this bit need to be explained to me:
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Now at this point since user wants to create some .html file he will create "public_html" directory and add html file he created locally on his machine. Now at this point user wants to view this file on the web by going to this url ....http://www.servername.com/~username/file.html.....but he gets 404 error.
Using useradd will add user to the system, but that has nothing to do with HTTP and HTML .. so his home directory ($HOME) is /home/user if he creates a public_html directory, where will it be?

The best is you show us some extracts of your apache configuration file so we can understand
# 9  
Old 10-15-2010
I recall you have to reconfigure in the web server the linkage of URI /~username/ to ~username/public_html/, as it is bad security to expose user files without an admin to punish. Smilie

Per-user web directories - Apache HTTP Server

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You can run N web servers on the same box, different ports, and each web tree is a different subtree somewhere. Each web server could honor URI /~xyz/ as being in a different ~xyz/dir_name/ or the same one, by their configuration, or not honor it at all, as yours is doing by default. There is no magic, it is all spelled out in apache config files.
# 10  
Old 10-15-2010
As DGP pointed out, you can solve this with mod_userdir

mod_userdir - Apache HTTP Server

So, read the docs on mod_userdir and install and configure and you will be "good to go" as they say.
# 11  
Old 10-15-2010
Hi,
I just fixed it. I enabled userdir module in apache and i gave user permission on public_html directory
 
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