.htaccess not routing to /public_html/

Question

I seem to be having an interesting problem in that .htaccess isn't routing to /public_html/index.html by default as it should, and I'm getting a page not found error. I do know that someone tampered with the file recently but have no idea what they did and I unfortunately know nothing about routing. I tried to do some research but didn't come up with anything that gave a solution to my predicament. Does anyone know how to go about making the server route to public_html? Here's what I have right now.

RewriteEngine on

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName evolvingwebcreations.com

#-------------------------
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^swinkapps.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.swinkapps.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*) "http\:\/\/127\.0\.0\.1\:12005\/$1" [P,L]
#-------------------------

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^swinkapps.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.swinkapps.com$
RewriteRule ^clients(.*) "http\:\/\/127\.0\.0\.1\:12005\/$1" [P,L]

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I don't believe it ever routes to public_html by default. You'll need to specify

UserDir public_html

and possibly set some access permissions such as

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
</Directory>