On 2022-01-04, Thomas Bohl <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 04.01.2022 um 10:19 schrieb Stuart Henderson: >> On 2022-01-03, Thomas Bohl <[email protected]> wrote: >>> # mkdir -p /var/www/usr/local/share/icu/ >>> # mkdir -p /var/www/etc/ssl/ >>> # cp -r /usr/local/share/icu/* /var/www/usr/local/share/icu/ >> >> The icu files are placed there automatically if you install the php-intl >> package which uses them. Don't copy them separately, you risk pkg_add failing >> to update them due to a conflict if the files change. > > Now I understand. As I started to use Nextcloud many years ago, I used > /home/www as httpd's chroot. Because /home has traditionary the most > diskspace. Inside Nextcloud it was impossible to set the email-address > of an user. By reading the source code I learned that > /usr/local/share/icu/ was missing and wondered why no tutorial/readme > mentioned it, while they would mentioning the /etc-stuff. Anyway I added > it to my own notes. Today I learned, it is already there if you don't > change the chroot location. > > Thanks for the explanation.
FWIW I don't find the default filesystem layout to be very useful for any of my machines and modify it in almost every case - for webservers I usually make a separate filesystem for /var/www. Packages are really geared up for working with the default locations.
