It is common for hosting company to share the same host and create per user directory, so that every user can browse with the following url.


http://localhost/~jimmy/index.html


It can be achieved easily by nginx configuration.


sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/default


Add the following code under “server” section

location ~ ^/~(.+?)(/.*)?$ {
alias /home/$1/www$2;
autoindex on;
}


Add the user to www-data group

sudo usermod -aG www-data $USER


Change the www directory under user home to mod 755, so that others can access the folder with execute right

chown 755 -R ~/www/