Re: [be] Bibledit and web server

[Peter von Kaehne]

Teus Benschop wrote:
> Serving home pages?
>
> It was mentioned that rather than use the web server's system-wide
> document root it would better use the user's home directory. I for my
> part would be very scary to think of all my data in the home directory
> made accessible to the outside world. This certainly ought not to be the
> default setup. Yes, it could be made optional. Think of all your private
> emails getting public! What kind of security model is this?

That is a misunderstanding.

All major webservers support userpages (though usually this needs to get 
switched on). These pages get served from a specially set aside 
directory for exactly this purpose. Not from the user's ordinary home 
directory.

The usual place for a not chrooted webserver is to find the user pages 
within the user's home directory in a subdirectory called Public or 
public_html. On a chrooted server it is within the server root. Either 
way, on the server it appears then as /~user

So, your emails etc are _not_shared.

Peter