User folders under subdomain

ModRewrite?

[QJimbo]

Hi,
Basically on my server, I want pages to look like they are coming from http://srn.example.com/~example/ when they are actually coming from http://www.example.com/users/example/ ( /home/<username>/public_html )
I've got this rewrite rule so far:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/~(.+) http://www.example.com/users/$1 [R,L]

However the address at the top of the browser changes! Is there anyway to make it look seemless (without using some ghastly frames trick). I've noticed that I can change the address to anything in the rewrite rule and it still works so I'm quite suspicious about it (I don't really understand how it works).
Surely it can't be hard to get an apache server to lie about where it's getting pages from!
Thanks in advance,
James

[edited by: jdMorgan at 3:27 pm (utc) on July 18, 2004]
[edit reason] Removed specifics per TOS [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

James,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]!

Just use an internal rewrite, rather than an external redirect:

RewriteRule ^/~(.+)$ /users/$1 [L]

Jim