About the Sites folder into Users accounts

Hi,
I can reach the Sites folder of users if I put a ~ after the domaine name like in : http://mydomain.com/~userx/
How to do the same without having to put the ~ ?
Thanks

You need to configure apache specifically to do that.
The whole point of the ~ is to gain access to user-specific sites. Without that character (or something similar), Apache can't automatically tell whether http://yourdomain.com/userx is userx's Sites directory, or a directory called '/userx' in the document root.
So, if you want Apache to automatically find user-specific sites you'll need the tilde. If you don't, you'll need to tell apache how to find them (bearing in mind that the user's home directory might not be in /Users - it could be a network home directory, or in some other location.
You might be able to craft something close using RewriteRules (at least to the point of catching missing directories and redirecting to /Users), but getting Apache to lookup a user via directory services to locate thier home directory is beyond RewriteRules as I know them.

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