"Ted" == Ted Okada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ted> 1. You indicated the home directory to be /home/www-data Apache Ted> recommends /var/www ... I let Apache use /home/www-data ... In Ted> fact, I understand what happened. I was using /var/www and Ted> instead of user www- data, I used user www with /var/www as the Ted> home directory. What would you recommend given new packages? Ted> Should I symlink /var/www with /home/www-data? In general, with Ted> regards to where Debian is going and for future upgrades of Ted> Apache, what should the strategy be for location to place web Ted> data?
The historic place for the Debian Apache document root is /home/www-data/webspace. The other webserver packages used different conventions, and for 1.3 it was decided to standardize on /var/www as a default. But this is only a default -- the administrator can always change this afterwards. With apache in particular, only /etc/apache/httpd.conf is hardwired; the locations of everything else can be configured from commands in that. The preinst script should have added /var/www instead of /home/www-data -- its a Bug symptomatic of its antiquity. :-) Personally I still have my site in /home/www-data/webspace -- it makes it easier to backup, and the parent /home/www-data stuff can be used for other webserver-related stuff, like other virtual domains. Ted> 2. During the configuration of apache and apache-modules, there Ted> were configuration scripts... Do you know where these scripts are Ted> so I can run these scripts later to both configure apache as well Ted> as configure which apache modules to load? I'm sorry for this Ted> newbie question... All config scripts are stored in /var/lib/dpkg/info, named apache.preinst, apache.postinst, etc. The apache.postinst is what you are thinking of, but really all it does is call the "apacheconfig" program (which you can run at any time). If you already have the user and group "www-data" set up, really you don't need the scripts at all. Just copy over the three config files in /etc/apache -- httpd.conf, access.conf, and srm.conf -- and start apache with /etc/init.d/apache start. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mm mm Johnie Ingram, Network Technician mm mm Research & Development Dept., The Library Network m m m 33030 Van Born Road, Wayne, MI 48141 +1 313 326 8910 x144 mm mm GO BLUE PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
