Not useful for securing Apache, but very useful if your Apache install gets rooted.

The chroot daemon allows you to run a program and have it see a given directory as the root (/) directory. This effectively locks the process into its very own filesystem (“chroot jail”) isolated from the real / filesystem. In this article we will look at how to install the Apache Web server in such an environment.

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