Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-20 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:39:58PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:43:43PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > ...equinomial[1]... > > [1] no, this isn't a word. but it should be. you get the idea... > > It's a damn cool word. I second its introduction to the English > langua

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2001-10-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > > a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in g

/var and /usr Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in general, once Well I want to tel

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Grzegorz Prokopski
Hi ! I really like what Angus has showed about his apache config. I have "my" option too ;-) - of course... ATM I can see two major options (no matter where symlinks go): 1) /var/www/$FQDN/, /var/log/apache/$FQDN-{access|error}.log 2) /home/$DOMAINUSER/{somedirhere}/ everything in this dir IMHO

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Angus D Madden
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > why is debian apache making /var/www be the main directory, and why is > debian apache not providing an easily extensible location for virtual > domain data? > I think it's because TIMTOWTDI, and everyone has their own prefere

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:10:38PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > The default web root will be /var/www/default. There must be no files in > /var/www; as a temporary measure, a daily cronjob may be implemented to > move all files from /var/www to /var/www/default. If you really feel that this is nec

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread P Kirk
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:01:43AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: >On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a >> server into /var/www. > >Because it can change during normal system operation (rules out /usr

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > server into /var/www. Because it can change during normal system operation (rules out /usr and anything that typically resides on the root device), doesn't belo

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:56:35PM +0100, xio wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:10:38PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: [excessive quoting trimmed] > > /var/log/apache(2)/default should be symbolic links to the relevant > > directories. > > Why not have virtual and default documents in /var/www/? >

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread xio
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:10:38PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > > a homepage! in add

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread xio
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in general, once > a virtual host is

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:43:43PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Daniel Stone (on Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:10:38PM +1000): > > I think that a symlink from /var to /home is bad. Maybe if we stored it > > under /home/www-data or such. > > that's one possibility, although i am more in favor

let's move this thread (was Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations)

2001-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
we have just founded an apache task force to work on long overdue issues with apache, so let's continue this thread there, and not on both lists. if you still have comments about my original post, go ahead and post them here, otherwise hop on over to https://lists.madduck.net/mailman/listinfo/d

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Daniel Stone (on Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:10:38PM +1000): > I think that a symlink from /var to /home is bad. Maybe if we stored it > under /home/www-data or such. that's one possibility, although i am more in favor of uniting sites into single directory hierarchies. what's the big point of

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in general, once > a virtual host is

virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in general, once a virtual host is defined, one had better defined a virtual host for the primary hostname