I have set the root to be /var/www/htdocs Whilst others may think that is a bit pointless, it's fine for me. The issue here is not the chroot, or the location I like to put my web content, it's permissions and I can't see the relevance in the points you made - sorry. I have figured out the issue, and for anyone else who might be interested, then check out the man page for 'security'.
Thanks for your input though. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: HELP! My HTTPD website keeps breaking because the custom directory/user permissions are being reverting for some reason! Local Time: May 29, 2017 2:49 AM UTC Time: May 29, 2017 12:49 AM From: erling.westen...@gmail.com To: tec...@protonmail.com misc@openbsd.org <misc@openbsd.org> On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 08:13:13PM -0400, tec...@protonmail.com wrote: > I need to use the regular /var/www/htdocs for my site > > Such a strange issue I think that "need" of yours is the strangest issue here. It is /var/www that becomes the root directory when httpd/nginx/apache is chroot'ed, not htdocs. The latter is just an arbitrary location. You should be able to: # cp -Rp /var/www/htdocs /var/www/mysite Then replace all [relevant] occurences of "htdocs" to "mysite" in /etc/httpd.conf and in your files. It your site doesn't survive this, you're probably having other problems than file permissions. Show us your /etc/httpd.conf as a minimium. > Probably (not sure because you didn't care to say which version you're > running) because you upgraded to a newer snapshots. Use another > directory (one that doesn't come in the sets) if you want to do that. -- Erling Westenvik
