[Bug 1194074] Re: Default index.html blindly overwritten

[Robie Basak]

I've just noticed this bug.

IMHO, /usr/share/nginx/www/ should never be used to actually serve
files. To serve static files, the document root should be changed.
Somewhere under /srv is suitable under the FHS.

It would be nice if this were documented better somehow (I don't know
how), but this is a deliberate decision on the part of the Debian nginx
maintainers. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730382 for some background and the current debate
(which I note already links here as an example of how things go wrong).

I'm all for changing the default document root to /var/www/html/ like
Apache to avoid this issue, but I think that this change is still up for
debate in Debian. I'm neutral on whether Ubuntu should unilaterally make
this change outside of Debian. On one hand I prefer not to diverge, but
the existence of this bug does demonstrate that this is a real issue for
real Ubuntu users. Apache's way seems to do better and is decades old.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #730382
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730382

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  Default index.html blindly overwritten

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