Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:01:43AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
>> i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a
>> server into /var/www.
>
>Because it can change during normal system operation (rules out /usr
>and anything that typically resides on the root device), doesn't
>belong to any particular user (rules out /home - and your pages
>shouldn't belong to www-data unles you want to let crackers deface
>them), and it's persistent (rules out /tmp).
>
>> in addition, where do virtual hosts go?
>
>I keep mine in /var/www/domain.tld. Based on other responses in this
>thread, that seems to be a fairly common usage.
I tend to put them in users home directories www folder and its easy to
put the entries in /etc/apache/httpd.conf.
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