On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 16:10 +0000, Chris G wrote: > 2 - In apache's DocumentRoot (/var/www/html in my case) > > Messier with permissions if you want to edit HTML without becoming > root all the time. Also not so convenient for editing even with > permissions set up OK as it's not in your home directory. > > Easier to make sure that any outside access can only see what you > want to be seen. > > Cleaner/easier URLs without the need for symbolic links. > > Not really practical for multi-user but this doesn't apply for me. > > Need to back up separately from /home (though I suppose you could > make /var/html a link across to the /home partition) I tend to follow this direction: Change the /var/www/html ownership, or the ownership of a sub-directory (more preferable), to yourself. Put a symlink from your homespace to that location (this is a shortcut for your editing purposes, files are web served directly from Apache's usual location for public files). It's quite practical for multi-users, if they have their own sub-directories in /var/www/html. Or you change the group ownership, and add appropriate users to that web-authoring group. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
