On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 01:54:41PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 15/03/14 12:20, 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. > > That's the problem with intuition (instant understanding). ;) > > > If I have static HTML > > pages and some Perl CGI scripts, I would expect they go somewhere > > under /usr/share/. > > root "owns" /usr/share > > Would you want your web server running as root? > > > > What is the rational behind the chosen default > > directories? > > > /var/www is owned by the webserver and the server group (www-data) > ls -al /var/www Actually, what's typical in there is -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root But you can put stuff wherever you want, so long as you tell apache where it is with a vhost. I put some directories in users' homes on servers: /home/user/www/ then point a vhost there You just have to be sure and give the server permissions where needed, like, if you install a dokuwiki in there, make the data and upload directories writeable to the server, or if you put a wordpress, drupal, joomla, piwigo, or whatever else in there, similarly, there are directories that the server must be able to write in. But I tend to NOT install stuff like wp or dokuwiki from debian packages, rather using the upstream packages, since I use stable on servers, and stable packages tend not to keep up with upstream packages so well. I especially prefer upstream packages with git repos, where I can update them with a pull, like redmatrix (which isn't in debian, yet, anyway). Tony -- https://tonybaldwin.info art, music, software by me, tony 3F330C6E
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