On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 03:49 +1030, Tim wrote:
> 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.
I've used this method before also. I've found it to be the most
reasonable for what I've needed to work with.
--Tim
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