Re: [pkg-lighttpd] Changing the default document root for HTTP server

To: Development of Debian <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Cc: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [pkg-lighttpd] Changing the default document root for HTTP server
From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:14:23 +0800
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On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

> We should consider vhosts as well. Lighttpd defaults to
> /srv/<host>/htdocs (for mod simple vhost). ht instead of htdocs might
> be better.
>
> We could use /srv/default/ht as the default doc root.
> FHS: /srv : Data for services provided by this system. The methodology
> used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as there is
> currently no consensus on how this should be done.

/srv is solely the domain of the sysadmin, packages cannot rely on any
particular layout not specified by the sysadmin (via debconf etc).

-- 
bye,
pabs

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