UAPI Functions - WebDisk::set_homedir

Description

This function changes the home directory for a Web Disk account.

Examples


 cPanel or Webmail Session URL

https://hostname.example.com:2083/cpsess##########/execute/WebDisk/set_homedir?user=example1%40example.com&homedir=example1%2F

 LiveAPI PHP Class

$cpanel new CPANEL(); // Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
  
// Set the home directory for the example1 Web Disk user.
$new_permissions $cpanel->uapi(
    'WebDisk''set_homedir',
    array(
        'user'      => 'example1@example.com',
        'homedir'   => 'example1/",
         )
);

 LiveAPI Perl Module

my $cpliveapi = Cpanel::LiveAPI->new(); # Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
  
# Set the home directory for the example1 Web Disk user.
my $set_homedir $cpliveapi->uapi(
    'WebDisk''set_homedir',
    {
        'user'      =>   'example1@example.com',
        'homedir'   =>   'example1/',
    }
);

 cPanel Template Toolkit

<!-- Set the home directory for the example1 Web Disk user. -->
[% execute( 'WebDisk', 'set_homedir', { user => 'example1@example.com', homedir => 'example1' } ); %]

 Command Line

uapi --user=username WebDisk set_homedir user=example1%40example.com homedir=example1

 

Notes:

  • You must URI-encode values.
  • username represents your account-level username.

 Output (JSON)

   "messages":null,
   "errors":null,
   "status":1,
   "metadata":{ 
 
   },
   "data":null
}

 

Note:

Use cPanel's API Shell interface (Home >> Advanced >> API Shell) to directly test cPanel API calls.

 

Parameters

 Parameter 

Type

Description

Possible values

Example

user

string

Required

The Web Disk account username.

 The username of a Web Disk account on the cPanel account. 

 example1@example.com 

homedir

string

Required

The Web Disk account's home directory.

A relative path from the cPanel account's home directory.

example1/

private

 Boolean 

 Whether to set the Web Disk directory's permissions to public or private. 

This parameter defaults to 0.

  • 1 — Private (0700).
  • 0 — Public (0755).

0

 

Returns

This function only returns metadata.

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