Hi Bill, On 01.05.2014 22:52, Bill Allombert wrote: > [[ I think it is possible to use subdirectories of /srv as long as we prompt > the user for the directory structure to use, but that seems totally > unpractical for tthe purpose of the Document Root. > ]]
... and not good enough. For some use cases, e.g. Apache, we need to know the Document Root at build time. Apache does statically compile the path in for apache2-suexec for example. Other web servers might do something similar (or not). > I have made a first minimal draft. > Please comment. > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index bf959f1..5661f4b 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -7043,6 +7043,11 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1) > </p> > </item> > <item> > + <p> > + The <file>/var/www</file> directory is additionally > allowed. > + </p> > + </item> > + <item> > <p> > On GNU/Hurd systems, the following additional > directories are allowed in the root > @@ -9752,7 +9757,7 @@ http://localhost/cgi-bin/.../<var>cgi-bin-name</var> > <package>doc-base</package> package. If access to the > web document root is unavoidable then use > <example compact="compact"> > -/var/www > +/var/www/html > </example> > as the Document Root. This might be just a symbolic > link to the location where the system administrator Fine with me, thanks. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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