[ALUG] Where to put HTML etc.?

[Adam Bower]

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.

>     Not really practical for multi-user but this doesn't apply for me.

Why not? I have sysadmined machines with well over 100 seperate sites 
under /var I'd just setup each directory with the permissions for the
correct owner and leave them to get one with it.

>     Need to back up separately from /home (though I suppose you could
>     make /var/html a link across to the /home partition)

That won't matter as you are already backing /var up aren't you?

Adam
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