: Justin Pasher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3:07 PM
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why do I need /var/www as DocumentRoot www-data
as www owner?
Greg Platt - Platt Consultants wrote:
Yes, I realize the DocumentRoot location can be changed
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why do I need /var/www as DocumentRoot www-data
as www owner?
Greg Platt - Platt Consultants wrote:
I'm not arguing for or against what Debian did. One thing I can say is
their
approach provides an individual VirtualHost file for each
I'm throwing in the towel on this question. I've been puzzling over how and
why Apache changed its default document root location and trying to figure
out how that would affect me for weeks now. But no matter how much research
I do the best I've been able to do is to find occasional obtuse
Thanks for the reply, Brian. Yes, I think I'm fairly familiar with the role
of httpd.conf. It is for example, where the virtual hosts were defined on
RedHat in my earlier version of Linux. In fact I did have an occasional need
to make changes to that file on my old RedHat implementation of Linux.
at 3:15 PM, Greg Platt - Platt Consultants
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I remember someone mentioning in a post I made weeks ago that the
ownerships
and permissions on my web directories seemed odd. His remarks suggested he
thought all web directories ought to be owned by www-data and have
PROTECTED] Why do I need /var/www as DocumentRoot www-data
as www owner?
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Greg Platt - Platt Consultants
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I realize the DocumentRoot location can be changed. Indeed I've
already
changed it with the sites I converted earlier. What I
, 2008 2:59 PM
To: Greg Platt - Platt Consultants
Cc: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why do I need /var/www as DocumentRoot www-data
as www owner?
I have no clue why the Debian Etch distribution is set up as you
describe.
I do remember discussion about the time /var/www
