Re: Standards for WebServers
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> mike >> I would not consider the main collection webpages to be userbound.
> mike >> /home directories usually have quotas on them and other tricks.
> mike >
> mike >We differenciate here.
> mike >Our /home structure looks like this:
> mike >
> mike >/home
> mike >/home/staff
> mike >/home/customers <---- this has quotas and resides on a seperate
> mike > filesystem. In case of the WWW server, it is a
> mike > nfs mounted filesystem.
> mike >/home/customers/<customer>/www <---customers have their Web stuff in here
> mike >
> mike >/home/www <---- Only available on the WWW server
> mike >/home/www/www <---- Since www is a user it makes sense to let him keep
> mike > "his" files in a www directory too.
>
> There is an issue here of installing binaries / standard parts of binaries
> (f.e. man2html installs executables etc) in home. I think it would be
> better (and conforming to the standards) to put the executable binaries in
> a standard location in /usr.
>
> The webpages/ html code can be seen as editable application components and
> thus should be in /var
I personally would not like to rip the natural hierachie of the www
structure appart into two pieces. I'd rather move the whole structure to
/var/www/www
The directory structure would like this:
/var/www/
/var/www/www/
/var/www/www/cgi-bin
/var/log/www/
/var/cache/
/usr/local/roxen
/usr/local/ssl
Michael Neuffer i-Connect.Net, a Division of iConnect Corp.
mike@i-Connect.Net 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 140
503.677.2900 Beaverton, OR 97008
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