[ALUG] Where to put HTML etc.?

[Chris G]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 10:43:15AM +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 10:39:44AM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:58:08PM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:12:03PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > > >     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.
> > > 
> > > This is what groups were invented for.
> > > 
> > Yes, and what group do you use?  I couldn't come up with any sensible
> > group to make things work as I wanted, apache/httpd runs as 'nobody'
> > which makes things a little difficult.
> 
> I thought everything sane was using www-data/www-data for webservers
> these days and trying to limit the number of things running as user
> nobody. What distro are you using?
> 
I was using slackware (where httpd is nobody), it turns out that on
Fedora 7 where I am now httpd is run as user apache.

I see no www-data anywhere!  :-)

-- 
Chris Green