On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 12:25:00PM +0100, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> Hi Emanuel,
> 
> Emanuel Berg writes:
> >   Tramp: Checking ‘vc-registered’ for
> > /sudo:root@ebc:/:/scp:incal@srv.dataswamp.org:/var/www/htdocs/dataswamp.org/~incal/sth/scripts/senior...done
> >   Use M-x make-directory RET RET to create the directory and its parents
> >
> > Doing it like this works:
> >
> >   (find-file "/-:incal@srv.dataswamp.org:public_html/sth/scripts/senior")
> 
> 
> > I.e., /home/incal/public_html is actually
> > /var/www/htdocs/dataswamp.org/~incal
> 
> I don't think so.  "~incal" is the home directory of the user "incal".
> But only, if "~incal" is the first part of a file name.

And only if you've told your web server to do this mapping for you
(for Apache, it's mod_userdir [1] and its config, lighttpd has a
module with the same name [2], and I'm sure nginx has that too.

It's the Web, so it's all smoke and mirrors.

Cheers

[1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_userdir.html
[2] https://doc.lighttpd.net/lighttpd2/mod_userdir.html
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