Rewrite Rules for Home Web Server

[digisavvy]

Hello all,
So I've got a home web server (mac mini, running Lion Server 10.7) and I've ensured apache/mysql/php/phpmyadmin are all installed and playing nicely.

Right now, to see a site, I have to navigate to this structure of URL: http://domain-name.ext/~username/website

That's okay, but I would like to make the URLs rewrite to http://domain-name.ext/website. The username will always be the same, so if I could make a rule that some how removes 'username' from the URL string that would be awesome.

What's the best way to achieve that? Is this a rewrite rule to be done in httpd.conf or .htaccess? Or is this some other apache config?

 

[Hansr]

Google apache conf vhost and set the locations accordingly.

 

[DustinT]

This is the kind of stuff I like to be able to ask my webhost.. I'm such a lazy guy!

 

[digisavvy]

This is the kind of stuff I like to be able to ask my webhost.. I'm such a lazy guy!

Hehe. Well, I guess I can't do that since I'm my own webhost... Though, I think you just gave me a good idea.