hi, On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 06:10:44PM +1000, Kai Hendry wrote: > The files are not put in the "document root". They're symlinked. > > Most Web apps are arch-independent, unless I've misunderstood you. i think you have. what i'm saying is instead of using /usr/share/wordpress as the location where you put your web-accessible files (and then alias in apache), you should use /usr/share/wordpress/www or something similar, so that if you ever have files/scripts/includes that don't need to be in the web accessible directory, you can do so easily. it also makes it clear to the local admin what files are web-related. > > also, to respond to the previously brought up issue of /srv, i don't > > think webapps should be dropping anything in there are all. > > Any reason why? for exactly why steve mentioned. from my reading of the FHS and debian policy, /srv is closer to /opt or /usr/local wrt how we should be handling it, which means we don't plop files in there. there was some discussion of a tool to help manage copies of sites in /srv, but this should not be a default feature, and should actually probably be recommended against as it makes life much more difficult for package maintainers and more prone to breaking. sean --
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