The following reply was made to PR config/1927; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andreas Heilwagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Apache bugs database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: config/1927: Get full access to apache installation path by misusing https Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 07:15:40 -0700 (MST) On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Andreas Heilwagen wrote: > > What path are you talking about? ie. what define in > > httpd.h is set to it? What is your DocumentRoot > > set to in your main server config? ie. not any virtualhost. > > I had my DocumentRoot set to the installpath of apache. After Well, that is the problem then. You set the DocumentRoot explicitly to tell the server to serve files from that directory. If the request doesn't match any vhost, it uses the main DocumentRoot. I don't see any problems with Apache serving files from where you have told it to serve files... > recompiling the code it points to a location where nobody can > get any files and only gets a short go-away message. To set > it to the point where the virtual servers stuff lives would be > no good idea.
