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Josh Ockert wrote: |
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>I'm new here, more of a user than a dev. really but I wanted to ask |
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>about Apache's default configuration -- it took me a few minutes to |
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>realize what was going on, and I was just wondering why Gentoo's |
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>Apache has to be so different from everyone else's. |
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Eh?? |
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>IMO, the point to building a distribution is to be the best you can be |
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>-- so unless there's a very good and specific reason for making people |
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>change *two* blocks in the config files just to move the document |
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>root, I think it's doing more harm than good. |
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>(For those who don't follow, <Directory /> has a Deny from all |
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>directive, and then the *actual* path to the *default* DocumentRoot is |
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>Allow from all... so the original Deny directive AFAIK doesn't have |
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>any effect (since you can't get above the document root anyway iirc). |
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1. In this respect, Gentoo is not any different then any other sane distro. |
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2. You *can* go outside DocumentRoot. Think ~user, think Alias. |
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Most important - think FollowSymLinks.... |
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