ProxyPass /~ global rule doesn"t work

I am trying setup a reverse proxy rule to proxy over all user home
directories to another server, while

ProxyPass /~myhome/ http://www.xxx.com/~myhome/

works, the following rule doesn't work,

ProxyPass /~ http://www.xxx.com/~

I've also tried the following but still doesn't work

ProxyPass /~*/ http://www.xxx.com/~$1/

I am wondering what's the different here. Why the tilde rule with a
fixed user id works, but won't work as wildcard. As we have many user
accounts, I will need a global rule that work. Any simple solution or
workaround?

Thanks.

Re: ProxyPass /~ global rule doesn"t work

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Re: ProxyPass /~ global rule doesn"t work

"SiuHin" wrote in message
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>I am trying setup a reverse proxy rule to proxy over all user home
> directories to another server, while
>
> ProxyPass /~myhome/ http://www.xxx.com/~myhome/
>
> works, the following rule doesn't work,
>
> ProxyPass /~ http://www.xxx.com/~
>
> I've also tried the following but still doesn't work
>
> ProxyPass /~*/ http://www.xxx.com/~$1/

even if ProxyPass could handle regex paths, this should probably be
ProxyPass /(~.*)/ http://www.xxx.com/$1/

> I am wondering what's the different here. Why the tilde rule with a
> fixed user id works, but won't work as wildcard. As we have many user
> accounts, I will need a global rule that work. Any simple solution or
> workaround?
>
> Thanks.

It looks like ProxyPass expects the first argument to be a directory...
ProxyPass /~myhome http://www.xxx.com/~myhome
will proxy /~myhome, /~myhome/ and /~myhome/other but not /~myhomeother

so that will be why ProxyPass /~ ... doesn't work.

does it need to be proxied or could you just redirect the requests? -
UserDir http://www.xxx.com/~*