Correct me if I'm wrong, but based on the way your message sounds, you don't appear to have any knowledge of the httpd.conf file? It's the main configuration file for your server, and it includes a DocumentRoot directive that allows you to specify the document root. The default may be /var/www, but you should be able to set it to anything you want. The same is true for the user and group that apache uses: these can be configured with the User and Group directives. I personally have no idea about the security implications of choosing one document root or user/group over another, but (as I said), it doesn't sound like you realize they can be changed, so I just wanted to make sure you knew that. Secondly---and not to be critical, but hopefully constructive---basing your work on the absolute paths is a common but dangerous mistake. Of course it's a lot easier but, as you're beginning to see now, it /always/ comes back to bite you in the long run. Not that it does you any good now, but it's something you'll probably remember in the future. Best of luck -Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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