Disabling users from publishing web contents
The default Apache installation in Debian permits users to publish content under the $HOME/public_html. This content can be retrieved remotely using an URL such as: http://your_apache_server/~user.
If you do not want to permit this you must change the /etc/apache/http.conf configuration file commenting out (in Apache 1.3) the following module:
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