Re: [PHP] Placement of PHP programs?
Matthew> On 2 Sep 2002, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Matthew> I don't know of any web server which doesn't support an
Matthew> equivalent concept to Apache's aliases; I feel that /var/www
Matthew> (and I think practice bears me out) is pretty much local
Matthew> space - we don't fiddle with it (except when putting an
Matthew> *initial* web site in on install - which is never again
Matthew> touched after that).
itz> kronstadt:~# ls -l /var/www
itz> total 9
itz> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 Aug 21 23:27 docbook-dsssl -> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/images
itz> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Aug 31 19:20 dwww -> /var/lib/dwww/html
itz> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4110 Jun 19 10:16 index.html
itz> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 264 Aug 31 18:57 info2www
itz> kronstadt:~# dpkg -S /var/www/*
itz> docbook-dsssl: /var/www/docbook-dsssl
itz> dwww: /var/www/dwww
itz> dpkg: /var/www/index.html not found.
itz> info2www: /var/www/info2www
itz>
itz> i'm not necessarily saying it's a good thing, though :)
Matthew> It's a very baaaaad thing, in my opinion. If (for whatever
Matthew> reason) you'd had a directory called dwww when you'd
Matthew> installed dwww, you'd have lost it all (I think - I don't
Matthew> think I've ever hit the situation personally). Not a
Matthew> preferred outcome, in my eyes.
Well, I have always held (right or wrong) pretty much the opposite
view to yours: /var/www _is_ for Debian content, and local content
belongs in /usr/local. (thats why you don't see all that much in my
/var/www :-] )
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