Re: [cobalt-users] Subdomains pointing to directories [was WAP / Archive Searching [was Anybody experienced problems with All Security 3.0.1-6682?]]

[Steven Werby <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Zeffie wrote:

> > Just create DNS records as you normally would.  Create the site as you
> >normally
> > would.  Edit httpd.conf and change:
> > DocumentRoot /home/sites/siteXY/web
> > to:
> >
> > DocumentRoot /home/sites/siteXY/web/my_directory
> 
> You meant
> DocumentRoot /path/to/wherever


No, I did not.  The original poster asked about pointing a host to a
directory within the web site so that's the question I answered.  Advising
the poster to set DocumentRoot to /path/to/wherever should come with a
warning about the ramifications of pointing to directories outside the web
tree.


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Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}