</head><body><nav><div class="control-group"><div class="control-item"><div class="control-item__button-row"><a class="control-item__button control-item__button--size-main" href="/?commit=c387db1cf8bdad6552abfdf1e9a53fb78f72b911799bf9d6386d3e5b2e542574"><span class="">freeze</span></a></div><div class="control-item__title-overlay control-item__title-overlay--interactive"><span class="control-item__data-copy--end">latest universe</span></div></div></div></nav><main><h3>Minimal object containing this commit</h3><div><a class="visit" href="f59513ce20a83cf89afee1bf91b8f6f022ad16c4771a8dccb2aa442d3cc5ed1b?commit=c387db1cf8bdad6552abfdf1e9a53fb78f72b911799bf9d6386d3e5b2e542574">f59513ce20a83cf89afee1bf91b8f6f022ad16c4771a8dccb2aa442d3cc5ed1b</a></div><h3>Commit Diff</h3><pre>commit c387db1cf8bdad6552abfdf1e9a53fb78f72b911799bf9d6386d3e5b2e542574 Author: yihanwu1024 <yihanwu1024> Date: Mon May 16 00:00:00 2022 +0000 create article about the inauguration of www-users.tebibyte.io diff --git a/f59513ce20a83cf89afee1bf91b8f6f022ad16c4771a8dccb2aa442d3cc5ed1b b/f59513ce20a83cf89afee1bf91b8f6f022ad16c4771a8dccb2aa442d3cc5ed1b new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a54fbd --- /dev/null +++ b/f59513ce20a83cf89afee1bf91b8f6f022ad16c4771a8dccb2aa442d3cc5ed1b @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="f59513ce20a83cf89afee1bf91b8f6f022ad16c4771a8dccb2aa442d3cc5ed1b"> +<title>A Flashback of /~www-users</title> +<para>You may have noticed that this blog exist(ed) at <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://www-users.tebibyte.io/~yihanwu1024/">https://www-users.tebibyte.io/~yihanwu1024/</link> on May 16th, 2022. +As its name suggests, this subdomain is for user-managed websites. +Typically, the URL follows the form of https://www-users.example.org/~user/ or https://www.example.org/~user/, which, quite weirdly, feels a little bit retro.</para> +<para>This impression is because a typical www-users setup only serves static content for its simplicity to configure. +www-users is extremely suitable for an environment where users have their system accounts on a server. +The webserver parses the URL, gets the username, and serves files from a directory (typically named <literal>public_html</literal>) in the user’s home. +In older UNIX systems, home directories were even readable by everyone by default, presumably because they trusted each other a lot.</para> +<para>Web 2 changed the landscape. +In one aspect, users no longer hold system accounts, and instead use each service’s virtual account. +And these services grew larger and larger, to a point where operating systems started creating home directories with restrictive permissions by default, too.</para> +<para>Everything is private by default.</para> +<para>Everything has huge depths, too. +We rarely know what happens behind the scenes at Blogspot, Google. +Or just anywhere else.</para> +<para>That’s why I am bringing www-users back. +But with upgrades! +We now have a PHP runtime which our users can choose to use. +Debugging the NGINX configuration file took me forever, by the way.</para> +</article> </pre></main></body></html>