/var/www or /var/web

2007-01-19 Thread Paul Cager
I am packaging MyServer (a small web server). By default it expects its document root to be /var/web. Am I right to assume I should change this to /var/www (as in apache2)? The FSH doesn't mention either directory. Thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-19 Thread Georgy Berdyshev
Hello, Paul and all Debian developers!!! It's great that you're going to package MyServer. If you'll need any additional help, just drop a line. We prefer: /var/web should stay, as it is MyServer's default web content location. But when the Debian developers prefer /var/www: Can /var/www/myserve

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am packaging MyServer (a small web server). By default it expects > its document root to be /var/web. That path shouldn't be created or modified by a Debian package, so you'll need to change the package so it conforms to Debian policy. > Am I right to a

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-19 Thread Michael Koch
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 01:45:10AM +0100, Georgy Berdyshev wrote: > Hello, Paul and all Debian developers!!! > > It's great that you're going to package MyServer. If you'll need any > additional help, just drop a line. > > We prefer: /var/web should stay, as it is MyServer's default web > content

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread sean finney
hi paul, ben, et al, On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 12:34 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am packaging MyServer (a small web server). By default it expects > > its document root to be /var/web. you should change that to be /var/www. the FHS may be ambiguous on t

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 08:28:57AM +0100, Michael Koch wrote: > > The idea behind using /var/www for all webservers is that the user can > install a different webserver and it just servers his/her content. All > packaged web aoolications are put into /var/www too so choosing a > different root for

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread Luis Matos
Sáb, 2007-01-20 às 11:39 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez escreveu: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 08:28:57AM +0100, Michael Koch wrote: > > > > The idea behind using /var/www for all webservers is that the user can > > install a different webserver and it just servers his/her content. All > > packaged web ao

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread Kai Hendry
On 2007-01-20T10:37+0100 sean finney wrote: > you should change that to be /var/www. the FHS may be ambiguous on the > matter, but debian policy is fairly pointed that /var/www is the default > documentroot for any HTTP servers. I just wanted to quickly say I dislike /var/www. Installing Web

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread sean finney
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 19:29 +, Luis Matos wrote: > for example, phpsysinfo installs on /usr/share/phpsysinfo and symb links > into /var/www/phpsysinfo. > > this is ok, but maybe, a better location is sysinfo or hwinfo. the > easiest way to do this without handling links is to add an alias in t

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 20-Jan-07, 13:35 (CST), Kai Hendry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Installing Web applications /var/www and serving them with urls like: > > example.com/myservice > > Is really outdated. It really should be: > > myservice.example.com I disagree. In particular, your method requires more work: I

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread Ben Finney
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi paul, ben, et al, Please follow the guidelines for Debian mailing lists: don't send me a copy of messages unless I ask for one. I read the list. > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 12:34 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > The methodology used to name subdirectories

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 20 janvier 2007 à 19:35 +, Kai Hendry a écrit : > Installing Web applications /var/www and serving them with urls like: > > example.com/myservice > > Is really outdated. It really should be: > > myservice.example.com > > Served off some sort of vhost structure such as: > > /srv/w

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread Kai Hendry
On 2007-01-20T15:09-0600 Steve Greenland wrote: > I disagree. In particular, your method requires more work: I have to > modify DNS in addition to any other setup work. True. Updating DNS for Web services is a pain. I usually shoot for a wildcard entry. > The nice thing about opinions is that eve

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread Luis Matos
The point and not. 1) debian default installation is for the default user. default user can simply want to have a localhost with php on it for development. So installing on /var/www is good for him. 2) webservers For a webserver (serves only one vhost) default /var/www is most of times ok. 3)

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread sean finney
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 09:15 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Please follow the guidelines for Debian mailing lists: don't send me a > copy of messages unless I ask for one. I read the list. sorry, i'm still butting heads with my involuntarily new MUA, which doesn't have a shiny reply-to-list button (yes

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread Brian May
> "sean" == sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sean> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 19:29 +, Luis Matos wrote: >> for example, phpsysinfo installs on /usr/share/phpsysinfo and >> symb links into /var/www/phpsysinfo. >> >> this is ok, but maybe, a better location is sysinfo