Where do you put all your HTML stuff on a home Linux server?

[Chris G]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 12:16:16PM -0500, Chris Snook wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
>> 2 - In apache's DocumentRoot (/var/www/html in my case)
>>
>>     Messier with permissions if you want to edit HTML without becoming
>>     root all the time.  Also not so convenient for editing even with      
>> permissions set up OK as it's not in your home directory.
>
> For home use, I find 'chown -R luser:luser /var/www/html' to be a suitable 
> solution.  You can also 'ln -s /var/www/html ~/public_html' and then any 
> scripts or html editing apps that look in your home directory will be 
> happy, but you don't need to worry about enabling home directory support in 
> httpd and SELinux.
>
Yes, that's one way of doing it (the chown) but it's often necessary
to fix things after installations which often have to be done as root
and thus put root owned stuff there.

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Chris Green