Apache user pages (was: Re: Permissions on /root/)
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 08:16:38PM +0100, Thomas Sj?gren wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Birzan George Cristian wrote:
>
> > > It should be locked down and not touched by adduser ("Would You Like To
> > > Make All Homedirs World-Readable?").
> > root is not the regular user. Users need o+x on their home dirs for
> > Apache to be able to serve pages.
>
> No they don't.
> You shouldn't place user websites in their home dirs. Place the user
> "webspace" in e.g /var/www/[user] and symlink from public_html or
> whatever.
..and this makes a difference how...? I'm not necessarily trying to
disagree with you, I was just expecting an explanation as to why that is
a better solution.
Rob
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