Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]
- To: Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com>
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- Subject: Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED]
- From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 10:29:55 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 04:57:28PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
[...]
> Just to be clear, the folder I had to change permissions on is the
> <folder containing all the web sites. This is many levels above the
> document root,
To be able to access a file given its path, you need to have read
access to each directory [1] along that path. There isn't another
way, and this is a Good Thing [TM]
Cheers
[1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is
beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they?
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