On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:10:38PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > 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. >
Why not have virtual and default documents in /var/www/<domainname>?
Might be more consistent then having a default dir and then different
domainname 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:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% ls -l /var
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 4 09:48 /var ->
> /home/var
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> 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
>
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