Re: FHS and /var/www
Brian May wrote:
>
> Packages should not fill [the default webroot] directory with any
> files. Period. No exceptions. Not even .htaccess files (which normally
> shouldn't be used anyway because enabling these slows down web
>this accesses - at least according to official Apache documentation).
Not all webservers are apache. Not all webservers support .haccess.
> I suspect if you enforced this rule, some of the objections raised here
> to various proposals would go go away.
As the distribution cannot dictate nor know the contents of /srv, using
this as a default is a poor choice if the desire is to ensure that there
are no files being served by default.
/var/lib/www anyone?
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