Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:10:38PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> The default web root will be /var/www/default. There must be no files in
> /var/www; as a temporary measure, a daily cronjob may be implemented to
> move all files from /var/www to /var/www/default.
If you really feel that this is necessary, be sure to document the
hell out of it - warnings on package install, explanation of what is
being done (and why, which I'm not really clear on) in
/usr/share/doc, email messages informing the sysadmin when files are
moved including a reference to the explanation in /usr/share/doc,
etc. I doubt that I'm the only one who keeps an index.html in
/var/www which just says, "I don't know which virtual domain you
wanted, so here are a list of the options with links that will bring
them up for you." and I would be thoroughly upset if that were to be
moved while I'm not looking. Especially if it got moved into a
directory which already contains a perfectly good (and much more
meaningful) index.html.
Choosing a default configuration for packages is a good thing to do
as well as probably being necessary. Forcing admins to stick to that
configuration with cronjobs that periodically 'repair' any deviation
from the default is not.
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When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists
have already won. - reverius
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