It seems to me that if they put their application in /var/www/html (as
opposed to /var/www/app/html), they they will not be able to run any other
web applications on the server without conflicting with this one. Sure, they
may say that they don't have plans to ever run any other applicaitons, but
that's a very short-sighted view and they should understand that. At the
very least they should understand that it is cheaper to add a web
application to the same server than to be forced to purchase a new server
for every application because of a short-sigted decision like this.

It also seems likely that they don't want to be responsible for managing the
apache configuration, either because they either don't know how or they want
you to be responsible if something goes wrong. A though situation to be in.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Camron W. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Alle,
>
>        They have asked, that we change the default directory
> permission/ownership of /var/www/html,cgi-bin, instead of using the
> Documentroot and ScriptAlias parameters in the apache configuration.
>
>
>        My question is:
>
>        What argument, if any, would you use to try and convince the
> customer
> that this is a bad idea/bad practice?
>
> Best Regards,
> Camron
>
>

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