On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in general, once > a virtual host is defined, one had better defined a virtual host for > the primary hostname too so as to make apache work better (my > experience). but as soon as server.mydomain.com and > virtual.mydomain.com are both hosted by the same server, and are both > virtual domains, they should technically be in the same hierarchy. 07:45PM|> why was /var/www chosen? 07:45PM|<wolfie> DanielS: FHS? 07:46PM|<wolfie> DanielS: not that im saying it makes sense. but thats the reasoning. Yes, this starts to get flaky once you get to virtual hosts. > right now, i solve this by having symlinks from /var/www/servername to > the homedirectory of the responsible person for the domain, so that > the actual data reside on /home. but that's not the way debian handles > this, and i am wondering just why? I think that a symlink from /var to /home is bad. Maybe if we stored it under /home/www-data or such. Actually, this is my proposal (to be common policy for apache and apache2, but I'm obviously not speaking for Thom): The default web root will be /var/www/default. There must be no files in /var/www; as a temporary measure, a daily cronjob may be implemented to move all files from /var/www to /var/www/default. The same applies for cgi-bin - the default site has CGIs in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/default, and, as a temporary measure, a daily cronjob may be implemented to move all files from /usr/lib/cgi-bin to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/default. Logs should be in /var/log/apache(2)/default (the 2 obviously only applies for apache2). Web documents for virtual hosts should be installed as /var/www/host.name (e.g. /var/www/www.debianplanet.org). This directory may or may not be a symbolic link anywhere else. CGIs for virtual hosts should follow the same format - /usr/lib/cgi-bin/host.name. The same also applies for logs - /var/log/apache(2)/default. If using virtual hosts, there should be directories of this format for all hosts, and /var/www/default, /usr/lib/cgi-bin/default and /var/log/apache(2)/default should be symbolic links to the relevant directories. Whaddya think? Oh, and while I'm at it, please move the apache manual to /usr/share/apache/manual, and have an Alias /manual/, or such. Or maybe even a /var/www/default/manual alternative? (I believe Thom implemented this, but it's on his laptop *sigh*). Currently apache2 has an alias. This stops conflicts. Should we also standardise the default configuration to produce a single combined log by default? (If it does this already, ignore me). > why is debian apache making /var/www be the main directory, and why is > debian apache not providing an easily extensible location for virtual > domain data? I think that it should remain that way, but hey, this is my main server: daniel@piro:~% ls -l /var lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 4 09:48 /var -> /home/var I think putting the "may or may not be a symlink" bit basically says, "make it a symlink if you want". IMHO putting it in /home isn't The Right Thing, but there you go. What does everyone else think? :) d -- Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net> <Md> Booting... /vmunix.el
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