Re: Bug 314808, /srv and webapps.
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 11:43:19AM -0400, sean finney 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
I would like to avoid Apache aliases altogether with a Virtual Document
root.
> /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.
For example what sort of files aren't required in the web accessible
directory?
> 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
Don't really need a tool, just a convention.
I agree with you in the sense that Debian packages should not drop or
maintain stuff in /srv.
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