Suresh Ramasubramanian proclaimed:
> ~user2/www -> htdocs/user2
> ~user3/www -> htdocs/user3
>
> etc etc. Main advantage is that _all_ html pages can be served from a
> separate webserver, and a user need not blow his disk quota on gifs and
> jpegs :)
The biggest problem with this scheme is the fact that for every new user
(say, user_new) that gets created on the system, the sys admin has to
create htdocs/user_new with the correct permissions. A nightmare to
maintain.
Quota is not that big an issue IMO. So what if there was a symlink?
Instead of hogging up quota under their home directories, user would be
eating up precious space under htdocs. That is, actually even worse. They
could even create huge files in that part of the filesystem and prevent
other users from publishing or worse still, bring the server down. Kind of
a denial of service.
I am still partial to doing it through Apache's built-un UserDir
directive. It is a one time configuration change and gives users the
freedom to either create or not create homepages.
Thaths
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