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I was playing with the apache configuration files after a system restore when I noticed something I have never really though about too much. Here are the first lines of the default /etc/apache2/sites-available/default:

DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
 </Directory>

Since the root of a web server is usually /var/www, why is there the need to add a <Directory /> in here?

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It could be that you somewhere in your configuration define a Directory outside of DocumentRoot (e.g. I store my static pages under DocumentRoot but have web-applications in a separate directory outside DocumentRoot). By having <Directory /> in your configuration you define a reasonable default that's valid for every directory not specified by an own <Directory>-stanza.

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