Sriram Natarajan wrote:
>Well, in a production environment, customer might choose to keep their
>document directories in a more segregated fashion depending on their
>virtual server setup. In this case, I am not sure, if you would very
>much want to associate your installation to a particular location of web
>server (read apache 2.2) content files.
>
>Besides, tying the "installed" location too close to a particular
>version of web server also makes it a maintenance headache for your
>team . Other web servers like Sun Java System web server or Apache 2.4
>will not be able to take advantage of this integration. However, if you
>had a consistent "pre deployed" location (say /var/drupal/6.0) and an
>associated /etc/apache2/2.2/conf.d/drupal.conf then you provide both a
>seamless integration as well as support for re usability with other
>versions of web server
>
>
>
+1
It is easier to upgrade, install multiple versions if Drupal is placed
in a separate location.
If this cannot be done for some reason (which I doubt), then it should
at least
be installed in a subdirectory under htdocs ... like
.../htdocs/drupal6/include
/misc
/modules
...
-- Seema.
>Eric Reid wrote:
>
>
>>S -
>>
>>Look at what an 'install' means from Drupal here... all the files can
>>come out of package and be moved right into a default or a user-selected
>>webserver htdocs directory -- unlike most SFW packages, Drupal won't
>>"live" anywhere, except parasitically within a webserver's directory
>>structure.
>>
>>Now, if we want to extract Drupal 6 files from the package and into a
>>'home' resting place, which could persist after the files are copied
>>into the htdocs directory, then the question makes sense -- problem is,
>>I don't see too much value in keeping a copy of the 'pre-deployed'
>>Drupal files around, separate from the 'installed' copy, do you?
>>
>>ERR
>>
>>
>>Sriram Natarajan wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>If in case, you are going to bundle this within Open Solaris, would it
>>>not make better sense to place it under /var/drupal/6.0 ? This way, it
>>>is not very tied to web server's particular version and location
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>sriram
>>>
>>>Eric Reid wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Please find attached for review:
>>>> OnePager
>>>> ManPage appendix
>>>> FileList appendix
>>>>
>>>>Let the games begin! :)
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