On Wednesday 30 March 2005 06:23, Harry Putnam wrote: > John Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 17:51, A. Khattri wrote: > >> And put your files in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/ > > > > Actually, if you're going to use that location, you'll want to set the > > 'no-htdocs' USE-flag, but only *after* emerging apache the first time. > > Otherwise, the next time net-www/gentoo-webroot-default gets an update, > > your wonderful content will be overwritten by the default Gentoo 'It > > Worked!' page. > > Thanks .. good to know. I guess gentoo-webroot-default doesn't get > installed as a dependancy to apache eh? So if I never install it > there would be no problem either? I see you're using the stable branch... When the stuff currently in the testing branch goes stable, it will be.
> > Not sure I understand the wisdom of a package possibly overwriting my > own web content.... So an update would what...? blow my index.html > away and install a default one? Exactly. There's been a bit of debate over this. Apparently (according to the Gentoo Apache people), you're not supposed to use that location, but use vhosts instead, but I can't seem to find any documentation to support that, or what the 'Gentoo way' of doing that would be...
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