On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>   But that leaves us with no place to put "htdocs".  Putting it under /usr
> doesn't really make sense -- /usr is where static files live, not user data.
> "/usr/local/htdocs" might make sense, but Red Hat wanted to leave
> "/usr/local" for things not packaged by Red Hat.  Ditto "/opt".  They ended
> up choosing "/home" because it was the web server's "home", so to speak.  I
> think "/var/svc/httpd" or something would have been a better choice, but as
> you say, sometimes it is just a matter of taste.

Interesting. Mandrake puts Apache's default root in /var/www/html, and I
have it symlinked on one system to /home/apache, to make it easier to
backup/preserve-across-update the files, so I gather that I've come around
to Red Hat's way of thinking without realizing it ... :)

-- 

Bill Mullen
1:58pm, 2002-07-26




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