Hmm. I think I'll have to subscribe to debian-devel real soon now, (but not on this address!) chances are this has been beaten to death already..
> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 11:57:04 -0500 (EST) > From: Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ALPHA release of apache-1.0.0-1 now available > > * Should we create a new user and/or group to control access to the > hierarchy of html files? If so, why don't we make it "official" and get > Bruce to include in the base /etc/group and /etc/passwd files. Doesn't cern-httpd do this? I think it creates a group called "www-data". > * Where should we put the html hierarchy? I mean, they could exist on > /usr, since it doesn't per se matter if they're read-only or not, but it > that "right"? A lot of places use /home/html or some such---I personally > don't think this is appropriate, but someone please tell me I'm wrong. Well, my views on this are: o a /var/httpd/htdocs for the documents Remember apache can be a server for multiple domains. That's why we need a 2-level directory structure; you might get /var/httpd/htdocs-customer2 /var/httpd/htdocs-customer3 as "htdocs" base directory for other virtual domains. o cgi-bin: /usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin o icons: /usr/lib/httpd/icons o maintenance scripts: /usr/lib/httpd/crons (or maint, whatever) (I have some nice ones) o logfiles: /var/log/httpd/.... again, preferably not in /var/log itself because there might be lots of virtual domains. o where do htpasswd & friends go? /usr/bin ? /usr/lib/httpd/bin ? > We might also want to coordinate with Ted Hajek who maintains the cern httpd. > Also, you might want to rename the package to apache-httpd and the > related directories and files, or you need to conflict with cern-httpd. Yes, the config file for cern should be renamed to /etc/cern-httpd.conf (or something); I usually have both servers running, cern as a proxy and apache for the real work. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP5) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/ + fall +
