apocryph.org Notes to my future self

User directories not included in default Apache 2.2 config?

I just recently upgraded bonzo to Apache 2.2. I noticed that user directories, (eg, apocryph.org/~anelson mapping to /home/anelson/public_html/ don’t work anymore. What gives?

The httpd.conf entry in question is:

#
# UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.
#
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html

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#
# Control access to UserDir directories.  The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
    AllowOverride Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>
</Directory>

</IfModule>

This isn’t in the default config for Apache 2.2. Too bad. The userdir module is loaded; they’re just not enabled. I added the above and did an apachectl graceful and voila.