On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 13:30:06 +0200, Anita Lewis wrote: > This may be a dumb question on the wrong list, but here goes. > > I'm learning to set up a server via remote. We've got a mail server going > and mailman as well. We have apache going and have put some pages in > /var/www. There's a firewall on it and it is set so that we can send and > receive mail, access the mail list, bring up pages in a browser, ssh in as > users, and ftp in as users. We set it up so that root cannot ftp or ssh in. > > A user can ftp in and work on pages in their own public_html, but those > pages would appear in /~username. I want to be able to work on pages in > /var/www, because those pages come up when the domain name is accessed via > browser. /var/www is root.root > > Is there a way other than dropping the pages off as user via ftp, ssh and su > to root and move them, to do this? I'm thinking maybe there is a way using > groups. Or is there something wrong with my thinking about not allowing > root ftp? You can change the option DocumentRoot (and maybe some others if you need cgi) in your /etc/apache/htpd.conf from /var/www to /home/username/public_html.
> > Thanks. > Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
