[APACHE] How to have Web Hosting on a CentOS 7 VPS without buy a domain name

Create the home directory while creating a user

useradd -m THEUSERNAME

You can then set the password with:

passwd THEUSERNAME

You can disable logins to the account by setting the shell to /sbin/nologin

usermod -s /sbin/nologin THEUSERNAME

Enable usedir.conf of apache.

1	nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/userdir.conf

Change from:

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<IfModule mod_userdir.c>     #     # UserDir is disabled by default since it can confirm the presence     # of a username on the system (depending on home directory     # permissions).     #     UserDir disabled        #     # To enable requests to /~user/ to serve the user's public_html     # directory, remove the "UserDir disabled" line above, and uncomment     # the following line instead:     #     UserDir public_html    </IfModule>    <Directory /home/*/public_html>         Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks          Require all granted </Directory>

To:

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<IfModule mod_userdir.c>     #     # UserDir is disabled by default since it can confirm the presence     # of a username on the system (depending on home directory     # permissions).     #     #UserDir disabled        #     # To enable requests to /~user/ to serve the user's public_html     # directory, remove the "UserDir disabled" line above, and uncomment     # the following line instead:     #     UserDir public_html    </IfModule>    <Directory /home/*/public_html>         Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks          Require all granted </Directory>

Then restart apache…

1	systemctl restart httpd.service

Create user’s public_html and assign permissions.

1	mkdir /home/THEUSERNAME/public_html

1	chmod 711 /home/THEUSERNAME

1	chown THEUSERNAME:THEUSERNAME /home/THEUSERNAME/public_html

1	chmod 755 /home/THEUSERNAME/public_html

Then here’s the other new things, especially you are using SELinux

2	setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs true chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /home/THEUSERNAME/public_html

Create an index.html file

/home/THEUSERNAME/public_html/index.html

Change ownership 

Shell

1	chmod 644 /home/THEUSERNAME/public_html/index.html

Run the test by navigating to the following URL from your browser.

Shell

1	http://YOUR-VPS-IP/~THEUSERNAME