I was thinking that may be an issue but I thought it only reported issues and didn't make changes.
Sent from BlueMail On May 28, 2017, 10:47 PM, at 10:47 PM, tec...@protonmail.com wrote: >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
