On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:25:43AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > > I like this idea. /usr/share/doc is really not the right place for images, > > and placing them there simply because it happens to be web-accessible is an > > unnecessary kludge. Slightly less unappetizing is to place the images in > > /usr/share/<package> and symlink from /var/www to there. Policy recommends > > against this, but I like it for systems that I administer. > > I'm not really up on web stuff anymore, but I vaguely recall apache does an > approximation of chroot to DocumentRoot and restrict symlinks out of it. > This might cause problems if /usr/share/package-name isn't permitted. > > I'm not sure, but something to check anyway
Not quite. Symlink following is controlled by the FollowSymlinks and SymlinksIfOwnerMatch options, on a per-anything basis. The default Apache access.conf (as I recall) specified FollowSymlinks for /var/www; I quickly changed it to SymlinksIfOwnerMatch. -- - mdz
