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From: Donny Davies <woodchip@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Web Application Installation
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 04:01:09
Message-Id: 20030806040107.GA2422@breccia.escarpment
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Web Application Installation by Stuart Herbert
1 Hi Stuart
2
3 On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:12:05AM +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote:
4 >How do you feel about making /var/www the "official" Gentoo home for dynamic
5 >vhosts? So we'd have something like
6 >
7 > /var/www/<host>/public_html/
8 >
9 >as the docroot for the virtual host.
10 >
11 >At the same time, how would you feel if, for single-domain installs, we made
12 >/var/www/localhost/public_html the default docroot, instead of /home/httpd.
13 >
14 >If the box ever needs to move to dynamic vhosts, the admin or config-toolset
15 >just has to drop in a symlink in /var/wwww to expose the site as a virtual
16 >domain.
17
18 Very reasonable. /home/httpd was the result of moving from the very old
19 /usr/local/httpd, which is where things were installed before I gave the
20 Apache ebuild a massive overhaul. We need not stay with /home/httpd
21 forever, in fact it really does need to move somewhere else. Looks
22 like /var/www has become the defacto standard.
23
24 Donny