How do we create a directory in every user's home directory where they can drop a file, and have it automatically displayed by the Apache Web Server running on the LTSP server?

The simple answer is to create a symlink in /etc/skel, so when you create users on the system, it links a directory to DocumentRoot? of the Web Server. However, we discovered that, the redhat-config-user utility didn't handle the symlink properly.

So Nandy created a work-around. He modified the .bashrc in /etc/skel like so:

  # .bashrc
  # User specific aliases and functions
  # Source global definitions
  if [[ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then                  # these
        . /etc/bashrc                           # lines
  fi                                            # are standard

  if [[ ! -d /home/$USER/www ]; then            # does the link exist?
        echo creating link...                   # echo to standard out
        ln -s /var/www/html /home/$USER/www     # create the symbolic link if not
  else                                          # otherwise
        echo www link exists...                 # echo to standard out.
  fi                                            # done