*BSD News Article 90859


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cyclic.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-paris.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.kolumbus.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!uunet!in2.uu.net!207.17.190.11!news.diac.com!news
From: sitaram@diac.com (Sitaram Chamarty)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP With APACHE User Home Pages..
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 13:47:12 GMT
Organization: none
Lines: 26
Message-ID: <3326b3d4.79117274@news.diac.com>
References: <331F52D9.2A47@connect.cybersmith.com> <3322F9C3.6739909@gte.net>
Reply-To: sitaram@diac.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: p97.ts1.diac.com
X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36921

gary brant <gbrant@gte.net> wrote:

>CARL THEVENIN2 wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>>         What I want to do is simple "Well, not to me.". I want to allow users
>> on my FreeBSD System to have their own web site. I am currently using
[snip]
>
><Direcory /home/*>
>Options Indexes ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
></Directory>
>
>ExecCGI allows user CGI scripts, omit this if you don't want to allow

I'm new at this, but if I'm wrong someone will correct me...

Indexes is not needed unless you want people to see directory contents
- I enable it only for directories that are basically part of the
anon. FTP tree.  For the others, having an index.html with correct
pointers in it leading to other files in the directory is good enough.
Safer, too, I'm told.

HTH,

Sitaram