On 2 Sep 2002, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Matthew> I don't know of any web server which doesn't support an > Matthew> equivalent concept to Apache's aliases; I feel that /var/www > Matthew> (and I think practice bears me out) is pretty much local > Matthew> space - we don't fiddle with it (except when putting an > Matthew> *initial* web site in on install - which is never again > Matthew> touched after that). > > kronstadt:~# ls -l /var/www > total 9 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 Aug 21 23:27 docbook-dsssl -> > /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/images > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Aug 31 19:20 dwww -> > /var/lib/dwww/html > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4110 Jun 19 10:16 index.html > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 264 Aug 31 18:57 info2www > kronstadt:~# dpkg -S /var/www/* > docbook-dsssl: /var/www/docbook-dsssl > dwww: /var/www/dwww > dpkg: /var/www/index.html not found. > info2www: /var/www/info2www > > i'm not necessarily saying it's a good thing, though :)
It's a very baaaaad thing, in my opinion. If (for whatever reason) you'd had a directory called dwww when you'd installed dwww, you'd have lost it all (I think - I don't think I've ever hit the situation personally). Not a preferred outcome, in my eyes. -- Matthew Palmer, Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org
