Re: Apache default directories

[Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net>]

On 3/14/2014 9:20 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The default virtual host when Apache is installed on Debian has
> document root /var/www and a cgi-bin directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin. These
> directories do not make intuitive sense to me. If I have static HTML
> pages and some Perl CGI scripts, I would expect they go somewhere
> under /usr/share/. What is the rational behind the chosen default
> directories?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
No way would I want a web user to have access to what's in /usr/share. 
It would be a huge security exposure to allow a website user access to 
other files in the directory.

Jerry