On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 05:00:48PM +1000, Kai Hendry wrote: > I think /usr/share/PACKAGE/www is rather long and clumsy. > May I suggest a /web directory. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-webapps/2005/06/msg00029.html You can suggest it, but top-level directories are governed by the FHS, and you'll have to come up with a pretty strong reason why the existing available directories don't address the need. > The Web application can then store files based on /web/HTTP_HOST. > /usr/share/PACKAGE/www doesn't account for the possibility that more than > one website will use the package. The data will tend to be site specific > and hence using the environment variable HTTP_HOST is sensible. > For example: > /web/example.com > http://example.com/ > It encourages a strong link to the URL. So: create your /web directory and your per-host subdirectories, and create your symlink farm under that. There's no way that Debian is going to create /web/example.com for you, and webapp packages certainly aren't going to populate that directory with their files on install, so what does it actually buy anyone to put this in policy? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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