Re: web redirect question...

As far as the 'root' thing goes, I think /var/www should be chmod'd to the
apache user (which I think is 'www-data').

Also, have you considered per-user web directories?
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/public_html.html


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On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:23, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe-/[email protected]> wrote:

> I've got Ubuntu 10.04 on my home machine and have apt-got LAMP. /var/www is
> the standard web directory. So I'd like to set up Wordpress blog software
> here at home, but I don't want to do it with admin (/var/www is root root).
> My sys-admin skills (what little I ever had to begin with) have totally
> rusted out, so I'm asking if creating /home/myhomedir/blog and then doing a
> symbolic link:
>
> ln -s /home/myhomedir/blog blog
>
> in /var/www/ was the right thing to do. The link has lrwxrwxrwx root root.
> Although I'm on dynamic IP assign through my Internet provider (Qwest), It
> seems like anyone who had my IP address could see or get at
> /home/myhomedir/blog from http://myIPaddress/blog  Is this in fact the
> case? Should I change my permissions on the link (world to r-x), or is this
> a firewall issue?
>
> Larry Bottorff
> Grand Marais, MN
>
>