Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Tollef wrote:
>
>I realise you've had good an constructive responses for webapps, so
>commenting on /srv in particular:
>
>As I read it, putting stuff there is absolutely not fine.  It's even
>more off-limits than /usr/local (where you can create directories, but
>not remove them).

I'm still unconvinced by /srv personally - we've strived for years in
Debian to make things work as much as possible straight from initial
installation, yet now we're expected to deliberately leave services
unconfigured. I don't think this is progress for most of our users...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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