On 04/15/2012 06:29 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Arno Töll <a...@debian.org> wrote: > >> Thus, to summarize once again: I'd like to change the default directory >> served by web servers from /var/www to /var/www/html along with >> remaining web servers in Debian. >> >> Comments? >> > I'd use ht instead of html. Not every ht file is a html file. > > We should consider vhosts as well. Lighttpd defaults to > /srv/<host>/htdocs (for mod simple vhost). ht instead of htdocs might > be better. > > We could use /srv/default/ht as the default doc root. > FHS: /srv : Data for services provided by this system. The methodology > used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as there is > currently no consensus on how this should be done. > Moving to anywhere outside of /var is a bad idea because this might fill up space on the rootfs, while /var is traditionally (at least on servers) a separate partition. As you wrote above, the content inside /srv isn't specified, thus there could be collisions, while /var/www is already used in many distros for the web server.
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