From: "Kirk Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: directory structuer for a web server
> > > > where should one properly place the directory for the web pages in a web > > server, > > and is there a standard name for it? I have a box with several domains > > in it, so > > I created /www off of root, ant /www/www.foo.foo for each domain > > under /www but > > I suspect this is not a standard solution. Any advice? > Your option sounds as valid as mine or most any other. Some other layouts I've seen have a seperate partition for /home, so the virtual- hosted dirs are /home/clientname. I'm not a security guru, so my reason is not based on security, but I wouldn't go off of / on my box because / is generally a much smaller partition; on most of my boxes /usr is 20x or more the size of the rootdir. I config apache to /usr/local/www/ and use name based VirtualHosts. So, the server's main pages are addressed at /usr/local/www/htdocs, and each virt-hosted client is at /usr/local/www/htdocs/clientabbreviation. Of course, I guess if I get too many more clients, this could become clunky. I link /usr/local/www/htdocs to /www, and each client folder to /clientabbreviation, so one relatively short command line gets me anywhere I'd like to be. I do tend to be careful that folks aren't putting ".." links or commands in their dirs or scripts...although this shouldn't create problems, because a ".." command should go to /usr/local/www/htdocs, I'm pretty paranoid, because, as I said, I'm not a guru when it comes to security... HTH, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
