apache21 port

Jack L. xxjack12xx at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 20:54:24 GMT 2005


Ah, no wonder my site is missing :) There should be a big fat warning about 
that before you install it. I didn't see anywhere about wiping out the dir.

On 8/14/05, Alec Berryman <alec at thened.net> wrote:
> 
> Jack L. on 2005-08-13 23:32:44 -0700:
> 
> > Can you make it so the apache21 port doesn't overwrite
> > /usr/local/www/data/index.html if one exists. It wiped out my website 
> with
> > "It Works" when I reinstalled it and it shouldn't. Thanks.
> 
> It actually wiped /usr/local/www/data-dist - by default
> /usr/local/www/data is a symlink to /usr/local/www/data-dist, and I
> bet you didn't remove the symlink and create a new data directory.
> 
> It isn't particularly obvious and I was lucky to catch it before it
> bit me.
> 
> 
>


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