Hi all. I’m looking to make a backend in my NGINX server, for a website that only gets a few views. Right now I’m managing the files of the site using Git, with /var/www/ as the folder on github. I’m looking to create an ip logger to plot onto a map, and I’m wondering if there are any problems with hosting it on /var/www. My main concerns are if it’s accessible to other users or if it’ll slow down NGINX. I’m absolutely able to do it in another folder, but I am wondering if there are any problems with keeping any files in /var/www. To my knowledge, only past /var/www/html is viewable by a connection.

Thanks!

  • The Bard in GreenAEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    Slow down NginX

    I don’t see why it would, /var/www is exactly where I would put it.

    Accessible to other users.

    By default /var/www should be owned by root, with read and execute permissions for the group and execute permissions for other users (so the webserver can run the files in there). You can tweak this with chmod, and mess with who’s in the groups and who’s not.

      • @SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        You’re right, unless there’s some vulnerability, /var/www isn’t accessible by visitors when /var/www/html is configured as the web root in nginx. However if they are files that visitors shouldn’t access I probably wouldn’t put them in /var/www, but I guess at least you could chmod them like the previous commenter said, so that nginx can’t read them.