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Tag: dir-or-file-in-var-www
Severity: error
Check: files/hierarchy/standard
See-Also: filesystem-hierarchy thevarhierarchy
Explanation: Debian packages should not install files under <code>/var/www</code>.
This is not one of the <code>/var</code> directories in the File Hierarchy
Standard and is under the control of the local administrator. Packages
should not assume that it is the document root for a web server; it is
very common for users to change the default document root and packages
should not assume that users will keep any particular setting.
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Packages that want to make files available via an installed web server
should instead put instructions for the local administrator in a
README.Debian file and ideally include configuration fragments for common
web servers such as Apache.
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As an exception, packages are permitted to create the <code>/var/www</code>
directory due to its past history as the default document root, but
should at most copy over a default file in postinst for a new install.
In this case, please add a Lintian override.
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