XAMPP can't see/handle php files

[Olwe]

I've just installed XAMPP (XAMPP for Linux 1.7.3a) and got to all the welcome screens, phpMyAdmin just fine. I go to my /home/me/public_html/ and it sees the index.html just fine. I go to http://localhost/~me/newdir/ and it sees the index.html there and displays it fine. But when I go to a php file (http://localhost/~me/phptest.php) it gives:

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Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
Sat 12 Jun 2010 11:41:37 AM CDT
Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1


What have I done wrong? I stick the same phptest.php in the /opt/lampp/htdocs/ dir and it works....

[Olwe]

Correction. I'm not actually getting to my /home/me/public_html. That was the browser remembering from before. So how do I allow XAMPP to see and work with my /home/me/public_html directory?

[Radzio]

Uncomment loading of mod_userdir. I think it's already configured so you would only have to restart Apache then.

[Olwe]

Yes, but how does XAMPP know who I am? In reality, my home directory is /home/olwe/ Is the httpd.conf supposed to be told that olwe is the user? Right now User is set to nobody and Group to nogroup. Otherwise I can't imagine Apache can know what public_html we're talking about.

[Radzio]

mod_userdir is usually configured to allow access to /home/*/public_html as /~* where * is any name.

[Olwe]

mod_userdir is usually configured to allow access to /home/*/public_html as /~* where * is any name.

How can I check/trouble-shoot this? I wanted to do a command line module dump:

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apache2 -t -D DUMP_MODULES

, but there's no "apache2" with XAMPP, so I put this in a php file in the /opt/lampphtdocs dir:

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<pre>
<?php
print_r(apache_get_modules());
?>
</pre>

and yes, userdir module comes up on the list. Still, apache must need to know/resolve * to my home directory. How?

[Radzio]

* means any name. It will match any directory.
Uncomment the LoadModule line with mod_userdir in httpd.conf and restart Apache.
If you want to check userdir config then find a file similar to httpd-userdir.conf

[Olwe]

Actually, there's a line down in httpd.conf that I uncommented:

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# User home directories                                                                                                           
Include etc/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

Now it works!