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Andy Seaborne commented on JENA-1101:
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That is possible already. The run area is the server view of the layout. 
Symbolic links can map that to the system view.  

What you called {{conf.d/}} is {{configuration/}}; databases are under 
{{databases/}}, logs under {{logs/}}, backups have their own directory all so 
they are relocatable without the server java code having to know.

The simple, default out-of-the-box layout is one are so the user does not have 
to hunt the filesystem (that they may not have access to) for files i.e. simple 
use is simple and it works on Windows. The user may not have root access.

HOME/BASE is taken from Catalina.


> Fuseki filesystem layout and Linux FHS
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JENA-1101
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-1101
>             Project: Apache Jena
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: Fuseki 2.3.1
>            Reporter: Joachim Neubert
>
> When it comes to filesystem layout, the Java/Tomcat/Webapps world differs 
> quite fundamentally from the Linux world: Whereas for Tomcat or Fuseki it is 
> quite normal to have all files under a common root directory, the [Linux 
> Filesystem Hierarchy 
> Standard|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard] (which 
> is followed by most distributions) provides multiple roots for application 
> files:
> Configuration goes to /etc, read-only files to /usr, variable files to /var 
> (./log, ./cache etc.). To give you a better idea what this means in practice, 
> I add the layout of the tomcat installation by Centos 7 RPM as an example.
> From a linux sysadmins point of view, this makes it easy to know where to 
> find stuff without any special knowledge of the application, and to 
> generalize tasks like backup (e.g. exclude all application cache files on the 
> system).
> On the other hand, this means considerable more work, if you have to cover 
> systems outside the Linux world too. Things may get even more complicated by 
> remaining differeces between distributions and SElinux policies.
> So I don't suppose FHS compatibility is an realistic option for Fuseki.
> Yet, the current handling of mapping $FUSEKI_HOME/run to /etc/fuseki, with 
> the whole bunch of assorted runtime files, feels profundly wrong. According 
> to FHS, I would expect something like
> {noformat}
> etc/
>   fuseki/
>     config.ttl
>     shiro.ttl
>     conf.d/
>       service1.ttl
>       ...
> {noformat}
> and all the other stuff elsewhere.
> So I wonder if it would be possible to put the config hierarchy above under 
> a, say, $FUSEKI_CONF root, which defaults to /etc/fuseki in the .war 
> installation, and to $FUSEKI/conf otherwise.



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