On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:08:04AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:52:10PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Just a quick question: how (un)safe is it to create your own files and > > directories below /var/www/? Are there any names taken (besides dwww > > and index.html)? > > /var/www should belong to you, i don't think any debian package will > clobber anything in there, if they do its a bug. /var/www is set as > the document root for apache so its obviously natural for your site to > go there and be organized how you see fit. the index.html file should > be replaced by your own. > > just make sure its not owned by www-data.www-data!
what's the flaw in that? it's MORE secure to have files owned by root?? i don't grok that just yet, sensei...
