David Blomstrom wrote:
This is how most of my virtual hosts are set up:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName geoworld
ServerAlias geoworld *.geoworld
DocumentRoot c:\sites\geoworld
</VirtualHost>
However, I read somewhere that it's better to put your
sites inside a folder named public_html, then set up
your virtual host like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName geozoo
ServerAlias geozoo *.geozoo
DocumentRoot c:\sites\geozoo\public_html
</VirtualHost>
Can anyone tell me if that's better and why? I've set
a couple sites up like that, and everything seems to
work OK, but I don't want to go to the trouble of
changing all my sites if there's no real advantage.
The second alternative is probably better for most installations.
Remember that any file that lies under the document root is potentially
visible to all the world. Any files that will never be served via Apache
should not be under the document root. Having that extra layer of
directories gives you more flexibility in organizing and controlling
your files.
Of course there's no reason why the document root needs to be called
'public_html' in particular.
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