Why has the apache2 www dir been moved to /var/www/html?
apache, apache2
Solution
I found the bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730372
The report was filed after this mailing list discussion: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00301.html
Summary: Site admins usually place sites in `/var/www/site.com` and there may be sensitive data in `/var/www` that should not be made available via a web server. All web servers on Debian have been updated to use `/var/www/html` as default instead of `/var/www`.
Problem
I just upgraded my server and saw that the `default.conf` file in sites-available was now pointing to `/var/www/html` instead of `/var/www`. What was the reason for this change?