Matthew> 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).
itz> kronstadt:~# ls -l /var/www itz> total 9 itz> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 Aug 21 23:27 docbook-dsssl -> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/images itz> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Aug 31 19:20 dwww -> /var/lib/dwww/html itz> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4110 Jun 19 10:16 index.html itz> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 264 Aug 31 18:57 info2www itz> kronstadt:~# dpkg -S /var/www/* itz> docbook-dsssl: /var/www/docbook-dsssl itz> dwww: /var/www/dwww itz> dpkg: /var/www/index.html not found. itz> info2www: /var/www/info2www itz> itz> i'm not necessarily saying it's a good thing, though :) Matthew> It's a very baaaaad thing, in my opinion. If (for whatever Matthew> reason) you'd had a directory called dwww when you'd Matthew> installed dwww, you'd have lost it all (I think - I don't Matthew> think I've ever hit the situation personally). Not a Matthew> preferred outcome, in my eyes. Well, I have always held (right or wrong) pretty much the opposite view to yours: /var/www _is_ for Debian content, and local content belongs in /usr/local. (thats why you don't see all that much in my /var/www :-] ) -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.
