Pre defined folders in public_html

[broncha]

Hi Folks

I was wondering if this can be done somehow:

If we could predefine few folders to be created automatically into the public_html folder like images and deny server listing(automatically) for that folder when a new account is created from WHM?

This could be really helpfull.

Thanks

[Infopro]

Sure. add them to the /cpanel3-skel/ directory of the reseller that creates the accounts, or, add them to the /root/cpanel3-skel/ if root creates the accounts.

[broncha]

Hi InfoPro

Thanks for that update.
One thing.. Can u help me with some kinda script to iterate through the account folders in /home and copy a .htaccess file to the public_html folder?

[Spiral]

Originally Posted by broncha

Hi InfoPro

Thanks for that update.
One thing.. Can u help me with some kinda script to iterate through the account folders in /home and copy a .htaccess file to the public_html folder?

If that's the same for each account! You can skeleton copy that too!

If you need to customize it, you can create a postacct script
or other hooked script to update things after the account is built.

[broncha]

Thanks for that Spiral but I need to copy the htaccess to the folders that already exists in /home.

[Spiral]

Originally Posted by broncha

Thanks for that Spiral but I need to copy the htaccess to the folders that already exists in /home.

Option A) Copy the .htaccess from /home to the skeleton folder

*** Incidentally, by having .htaccess in /home, it is already automatically
active for every account on your server even without copying it to the
account because it is on a higher directory level for the account path

Apache reads /home, /home/(user), /home/(user)/public_html, etc.
when searching for .htaccess files and reads them in order as it
comes to them so any .htaccess in /home is already read by Apache
and used as the default .htaccess for the entire server


Option B) Create a /scripts/wwwacct script to copy the file

The script, /scripts/wwwacct, if it exists is executed automatically
after any new web hosting account is created and details regarding
the new hosting account are passed as command line arguments
to the script. More details about how /scripts/wwwacct works
and how to use it can be found on Cpanel's developer site.