What is it? mod_chroot makes running Apache in a secure chroot environment easy. You don't need to create a special directory hierarchy containing /dev, /lib, /etc... mod_chroot is now included in FreeBSD DarwinPorts PLD Linux Gentoo Linux Debian stable (I, for one, welcome our new Sarge overlords!) NetBSD Many thanks to all package maintainers! Why chroot? For security. chroot(2) changes the root