~Home ISAPI Filter

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~Home ISAPI Filter

What is ~Home?

~Home is an ISAPI filter dll that will map a URL request that specifies a ~username to the user's home directory. The home directory is defined in the User Manager.

For example let's say that your web root is c:\webroot\ and there is a user named "Joel" who has his home directory in e:\homedir\joelhome\ and he has a home page called home.htm in his home directory. You could access his homepage (assuming permissions have been correctly applied) with:

http://www.yourserver.com/~joel/home.htm

There is no need to create a virtual directory for each of your users. By virtue of a user having a home directory they have access to it by means of the ~user syntax.

The Advanced Version

There is an advanced version of ~Home which allows the administrator to designate more than just the user's home directory. It can be configured to access:

Additionally a post-path can be specified granting internet access into a subdirectory of the user's home directory. This allows each user to have a "Web" (or some other) subdirectory located in his home directory. There the user can place any pages to be accessed from the web.

How do I get ~Home?

The freeware version of The ~Home ISAPI filter can be found at the Roth Consulting FTP site:
ftp://ftp.roth.net/pub/isapi/
For pricing on the advanced version of The ~Home ISAPI filter contact us.

Can I apply Permissions?

Just like any other file in your IIS based web you can apply permissions on the user's home directory or files within it that will restrict or allow access from the web. If access is restricted a web browser will be asked to provide userid and password.

Does it have to be a ~?

You can change the access token. By default it is the slash-tilde (/~) but it does not have to be. It can be anything. You could change it to be "/home/" so that user Joel's home directory can be accessed by:

http://your.web.server/home/joel/
or it could be changed to an explanation point (!):
http://your.web.server/this/path/does/not/matter/home!joel/

Do I have to stop my web server to change the access token?

Not at all! All you need to do is alter a single registry entry then access the token reload page:
http://your.computer.name/~reloadtoken (note the /~ needs to be whatever the current access token is)

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	What is ~Home?
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	How Do I get ~Home?
	Can I apply Permissions?
	Does it have to be a ~?
	Do I have to stop my web server to change the access token?
	How do I turn off the online update capability?
	How do I install ~Home?
	How do I configure ~Home?

~Home ISAPI Filter

What is ~Home?

`http://www.yourserver.com/~joel/home.htm`

The Advanced Version

How do I get ~Home?

Can I apply Permissions?

Does it have to be a ~?

Do I have to stop my web server to change the access token?

How do I...

How do I install ~Home?

How do I configure ~Home?

How do I turn off the online update capability?

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Last updated 2004.11.06

~Home ISAPI Filter

What is ~Home?

http://www.yourserver.com/~joel/home.htm

The Advanced Version

How do I get ~Home?

Can I apply Permissions?

Does it have to be a ~?

Do I have to stop my web server to change the access token?

How do I...

How do I install ~Home?

How do I configure ~Home?

How do I turn off the online update capability?

This site has been hit 8,315,284 times since May 22, 2001

Copyright © 1996 - 2010 Roth Consulting. Last updated 2004.11.06

`http://www.yourserver.com/~joel/home.htm`

Copyright © 1996 - 2010 Roth Consulting.
Last updated 2004.11.06