[CentOS] Web server in a sandbox?

On Friday 11 September 2009 15:36:55 Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi Anne,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:14, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 
wrote:
> > installing mediawiki under /var/www/etc will keep it in the sandboxed
> > area - correct?
> 
> What do you mean by "sandbox"?

I mean the ability to use it as though it were a live system, but not in fact 
accessible by the Internet.
> 
> And I think you mean /var/www/html, there is no /var/www/etc in
>  RHEL/CentOS...
> 
Oops - badly expressed.  I meant 'etc' in the generic sense, not the directory 
sense.

> > The idea
> > of this is that if I can do the sysadmin role on a local installation I
> > can experiments safely away from the real one, and try to find working
> > solutions, which can then be passed to those with admin rights on the kde
> > server.
> 
> If you want something that can later on be replicated in another
> server, I would advise you to do the setup as close as possible to the
> way it is done on the other server, otherwise your findings might not
> be applicable to that setup...
> 
Hmm - since I don't have that level of access on the real server that may not 
be easy, but I can certainly talk to the sysadmins to see how far that is 
possible.

Anne
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