Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

[Will Trillich <trillich@speedex.net>]

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...