On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 12:43:52PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm not sure if there is any benefit to something standard like > /usr/share/<httpd>/defaultdocumentroot. Maybe there is, if some > program external to the web server wants to set up a later vhost for > that web server. In any case, it would not be a formal DocumentRoot, but > would instead be more of a document skeleton directory that is copied or > linked into place.
[I am only a by-stander in this discussion, but I have just a small technical point]. I would like to suggest an other naming convention that fit better with Debian practice: /usr/share/httpd/defaultdocumentroot/<package> i.e. putting the files in a common directory instead of clobbering the /usr/share/<package> namespace. This is in line with how menu, reportbug and lintian provide similar facilities (/usr/lib/menu/<package>, /usr/share/bug/<package>, /usr/share/lintian/overrides/<overrides>). Cheers, Bill.
