On 1/9/2020 7:16 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > For development of a web pages, I installed Apache2 on another machine > in the LAN so that I can FTP web pages from the development machine to > the web server and view the pages from the development machine. > > But the installation of Apache2 on Buster serves documents from > /var/www/html/, which is owned by root, so as a normal user I cannot > FTP into that directory. > > The web server is not exposed outside the LAN, so security is not an > issue. > > What is the proper approach? >
One way would be: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_userdir.html More as an alternative to apache on an hother host: - using the built-in webserver in 'hugo' - Python http.server -- John Doe