Package: boa Severity: important User: debian-apa...@lists.debian.org Usertags: default-doc-root
Hello, as discussed last year in <4f8a1567.80...@debian.org> [1] I'd now take the current development cycle to actually change the default Document Root in Debian's http servers. The reasons are outlined in the referenced mailing list thread, but once again, in short: Our webservers set the default document root to /var/www, whereas site-local administrators tend to use /var/www/example.com. This has security implications if visitors access the default document root, bypassing the /supposed/ document root of example.com. That's problematic if sensitive data is placeÑ outside the supposed document root (e.g. consider a hypothetical /var/www/example-com-db.conf configuration file). The consensus from last year's discussion was to use /var/www/<something> as a default document root instead, giving users a parent directory for HTTP Ñervers which is not served to the public. Personally I don't care about the actual directory name of <something>, and /var/www/default would probably be the best choice to highlight its designed use. However, to minimize the delta to other distributions I suggest to make the default document root /var/www/html - which is what Fedora/RHEL/CentOS is using already. Apache will make this change for the next upload coming up. Please follow us to have a consistent default document root across webservers in Debian. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00301.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-packages-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52921218.e2f5d.5dd05...@toell.net
