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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:05:15 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua>
To:        "Mike A. Oligny" <pandaro@freebsd.schema.ca>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: portupgrade of Apache deletes my web site?
Message-ID:  <20020619090221.Q16224-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua>
In-Reply-To: <3D0FA627.3020300@freebsd.schema.ca>

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Greetings!

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Mike A. Oligny wrote:

> Alex wrote:
> > You shouldn't have placed your website in to that directory. You
> > should have made another directory and relinked the
> > /usr/local/www/data to that directory. The you should have appointed
And, imho, better way is to change DocumentRoot in httpd.conf to
'another directory'.

> out of curiosity, (and pity for the new users who
> have/are/will be affected by this) I ask, where is
> this documented?
And now the most impressive. Citate from Apache documentation:
"INSTALL
 Now it's time to install....
 $make install
 If you are upgrading, the installation will not overwrite your
configuration files or documents."

Arrgh!

Alexander V Zubchenko,		E-Mail: stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua
System Administrator,		WWW: http://www.hermes-comp.zp.ua/
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