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Re: Standards for WebServers



Mike Neuffer wrote:
: 
: On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
: 
: www is a user, so you could expand those paths to 
: /home/www/www
: and
: /home/www/www/cgi-bin
: 
: > I would not consider the main collection webpages to be userbound.
: > /home directories usually have quotas on them and other tricks.
: 
: We differenciate here.
: Our /home structure looks like this:
: 
: /home
: /home/staff
: /home/customers <---- this has quotas and resides on a seperate
:                       filesystem. In case of the WWW server, it is a
:                       nfs mounted filesystem.
: /home/customers/<customer>/www <---customers have their Web stuff in here
: 
: /home/www	<---- Only available on the WWW server
: /home/www/www   <---- Since www is a user it makes sense to let him keep
:                       "his" files in a www directory too.


This way seems quite smart to me.  As keeping _application_ edited
files/directories under /var/.  I'd assume, html-documents are mostly 
_user_ edited and should go somewhere under /home.  And since I'd see CGI
scripts as html documents, I'd put them under /home too.

Just my HO.


    Heiko
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