On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 19:48 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
Duncan Lithgow wrote:
I *have*
1. I've edited /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf so it reads ... # DocumentRoot "/var/www/html" DocumentRoot "/mnt/SharedFiles/www" ...
2. I've commented out /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf
3. the /mnt/SharedFiles/www is owned by 'root' and the 'common' group of which apache is a member.
But i still get the content from /var/www/error/noindex.html
Something someone isn't working as I expected!
Thanks for your patience guys.
Duncan
I would think you'd want ownership of the DocumentRoot to be that of Apache.
i.e. apache.apache instead of root.apache
Its been my experience having ownership for a web server's document root can be rather problematic rather than a good thing to do.
My DocumentRoot (containing only static pages) is owned by root.root. There is absolutely no need for the apache user to own the DocumentRoot - it just needs to be able to read static pages. In fact, having the apache user able to write these files is a security issue because a web server compromise could result in your content being overwritten.
Paul.
actually thats not what I was refering to. Sorry I wasn't more clear. Soemthing that is public should not be owned by root in that manner. it should be owned by a non-privileged user such as apache or some other user.
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