Dear All,

When a web application generates lots of extra stuff that gets stored
for a while (e.g., temporal files with results ---ours are a bunch of
bioinformatics applications: http://asterias.info), what is the most
appropriate place to install the egg?

Since lots of stuff gets modified and added, as part of the
application execution, I think it is best to have the application
installed in the home of the web-server user, not as root. This allows
to set user quotas, prevent /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ from
filling up with junk and, I think, is less likely to lead to security
issues.

Does this make sense?

(Yes, another way would be for the setup scripts to create the
directories where the temporal stuff lives to be place in the
web-server user's directory; but I like the idea of having everything
under a single point in the directory tree).

Thanks,

R.

-- 
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Statistical Computing Team
Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme
Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
http://ligarto.org/rdiaz

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