How to manually set mod_userdir DefaultHost (nobody) so it is not excluded

Question

How to manually set mod_userdir DefaultHost (nobody) so it is not excluded

Answer

You may have scripts you run to ensure certain settings are set or not and would like the DefaultHost (nobody) not to be excluded. There presently isn't an API to make this change.

There should be a hostname file in /var/cpanel/userdata/nobody/ and can be seen for example with

# ls -ald /var/cpanel/userdata/nobody/$(hostname)
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231 Feb 2 04:11 /var/cpanel/userdata/nobody/cp1.myserver.com

The setting that needs to be updated is userdirprotect.

Example with user nobody excluded:

# grep ^userdirprotect /var/cpanel/userdata/nobody/$(hostname)
userdirprotect: -1

When not excluded:

# grep ^userdirprotect /var/cpanel/userdata/nobody/$(hostname)
userdirprotect: ''

The following sed statements will change the line to not be excluded for user nobody:

# sed -i "s/userdirprotect\:\ \-1/userdirprotect\:\ \'\'/g" /var/cpanel/userdata/nobody/$(hostname)*
sed -i "s/DefaultHost:-1/DefaultHost:/g" /var/cpanel/moddirdomains

Afterward, httpd.conf needs to be rebuilt and Apache restarted with

# /scripts/userdirctl on

# /scripts/restartsrv_httpd --hard