We would like http://server/useri­d/ to match some directory> (currently "www") of userid's home directory. Note that there is no> leading tilde on that URL. We have managed rewrites that put the tildde> in but then any returned redirect (e.g. from a missing trailing /)> exposes the tilde. For example, if a client requests> http://server/useri­d, then the rewrite converts this to> http://server/~user­id, the UserDir module identifies a directory and a> redirect is sent back to http://server/~user­id/. We would want the> redirect to be back to http://server/useri­d/ .

You need to give more details about what your configuration looks like.

The Apache system is being put together now, so it can look like> whatever it needs to.>

We have c. 35,000 registered users which change by a few users daily,> with big 5,000 user changes once a year and medium sized (c. 1,000> users) changes once a quarter. We are using the Novell nwhdir.c module> to extract home directory locations from the NDS.

But the first thing you need to consider is: do you need to also serve > content from the document root (outside of the home directories)? If > so, how are you going to differentiate between a request for the > document root and a request for the home directories if you don't use > the ~ or any other string?