Re: draft proposal for a new web server policy

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 12:43:52PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> I'm not sure if there is any benefit to something standard like
> /usr/share/<httpd>/defaultdocumentroot. Maybe there is, if some
> program external to the web server wants to set up a later vhost for
> that web server. In any case, it would not be a formal DocumentRoot, but
> would instead be more of a document skeleton directory that is copied or
> linked into place.

[I am only a by-stander in this discussion, but I have just a small
technical point].

I would like to suggest an other naming convention that fit better with
Debian practice:

/usr/share/httpd/defaultdocumentroot/<package>

i.e. putting the files in a common directory instead of clobbering the
/usr/share/<package> namespace.

This is in line with how menu, reportbug and lintian provide similar
facilities (/usr/lib/menu/<package>, /usr/share/bug/<package>, 
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/<overrides>).

Cheers,
Bill.