On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Arno Töll <a...@debian.org> wrote: > On 16.04.2012 18:59, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> Defining a standard for vhosts would solve the problem without having >> to touch the normal doc root. Seems like a far simpler fix. > > how would you do that? We can't control or enforce what directory people > pick for their virtual hosts. We do not and can not configure any > virtual host beyond a default.
Ensure default conf and examples use /srv/<host> See lighttpd's simple-vhost conf. You could do the same in vhost_alias.conf You could also provide an site.example file in sites-available > Of course we could just write some docs and tell people "please use /srv > for your personal vhosts", but that's not going to solve the problem I > want to address. Most people generally do not read documentation and > those who do, most likely already realize using the default /var/www > vhost plus custom /var/www/site vhosts causes problems. You're right, solving this via docs is not a good approach. > Hence I advocate to configure the default as sane as possible to obey > the principle of least surprise. > > -- > with kind regards, > Arno Töll > IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC > GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D > -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAA7U3HM_ht6PK8SwgGVHB4uNvWOebiRBNkye=goresfafts...@mail.gmail.com
