Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Fri, 18 Oct:
> Now when I think of it RedHat puts both WWW and FTP data in /var as well
> (/var/{www|ftp}).
>
> I used to move it to /home/www until now. Is it better to keep
> everything in /var? this data is mostly static, so I wonder why RedHat
> decided to move it to there.well, there are many different views on the questions of what goes where, and each vendor or packager has their own policies. the most consistant and strict of them is the one by Debian which build upon the FHS and whatever the LSB is pushing. you can go read what they say. /home is a place for home directories of users, I don't stick websites in there because I consider that to be data of the webserver. however it's not a standard library that should go into /usr/lib or /usr/share because it's stuff I created. /var/www is a good compromise, and it's the one Debian has been using for ages (though CGIs have been going to /usr/lib/cgi-bin). in other words - pick yourself a policy for running that server and stick to it. it will make it easier to maintain yourself as well as pass on to others down the road. -- Much ado about nothing Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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