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.
>
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.2.txt.gz:
"5. The /var Hierarchy
5.1 Purpose
/var contains variable data files. This includes spool directories and
files, administrative and logging data, and transient and temporary
files.
[...]
/var is specified here in order to make it possible to mount /usr read-
only. Everything that once went into /usr that is written to during
system operation (as opposed to installation and software maintenance)
must be in /var."
I think html files can be defined as variable data files. /var includes
"transient and temporary" files. However, I don't think this means
everything in /var is non-peristent.
As far is I know SuSE and Solaris store apache data files in /usr/local.
Which makes also sense, as /usr can contain static and dynamic files.
An argument for using /home is the fact that www-data is a user and as
such it should have its home dir in /home.
Still, from a gut feeling, I prefer /var to /home. Maybe we could
research in more depth the reasons why /var was chosen before we decide
on changing it?
> 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?
>
> 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?
>
> martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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> it said "needs windoze 98 or better," so i installed linux.
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Christmas time is here, by Golly; Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens;
Disapproval would be folly; Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens;
Deck the halls with hunks of holly; Even though the prospect sickens,
Fill the cup and don't say when... Brother, here we go again.
On Christmas day, you can't get sore; Relations sparing no expense'll,
Your fellow man you must adore; Send some useless old utensil,
There's time to rob him all the more, Or a matching pen and pencil,
The other three hundred and sixty-four! Just the thing I need... how nice.
It doesn't matter how sincere Hark The Herald-Tribune sings,
It is, nor how heartfelt the spirit; Advertising wondrous things.
Sentiment will not endear it; God Rest Ye Merry Merchants,
What's important is... the price. May you make the Yuletide pay.
Angels We Have Heard On High,
Let the raucous sleighbells jingle; Tell us to go out and buy.
Hail our dear old friend, Kris Kringle, Sooooo...
Driving his reindeer across the sky,
Don't stand underneath when they fly by!
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