On Sunday 23 July 2006 11:25, Russ Allbery wrote: > George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see /var/www mentioned in FHS, and we have bunch of web-based > > applications (think of whatever www-based admin package, like phppgadmin > > for instance) and these packages at some point need to install their > > files in some document root directory and it will probably be under /srv > > in the future. > > I've never understood why such applications don't install their files > under /usr/share. At least with Apache, there's no need to install files > under the document root; you can use Alias directives and similar > techniques to serve files from anywhere in the file system. I assume > other full-featured web servers have similar capabilities.
Ops, you are right. Good web app packages (like phppgadmin) install their files under /usr/share. In fact such apps either insist on having a particular webserver installed if they need a special feature, or in case they are too generic then depends: on the webserver virtual package, so I believe the webserver type is not a problem. > The URL space of a given web server varies so much by site that personally > I prefer not having any web application available via the web immediately > after package installation. Maybe it's short-sighted of me, but as a > person installing packages, I always prefer to have the package not serve > its files by default but instead tell me in README.Debian what > configuration fragment I should add. True. The principle of less surprise. So, seems you have your points right wrt /srv. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
