From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 19:16: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A87C637B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA46E43EA3 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:16:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daleco@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.236.206] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id AF9385FC023C; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 21:14:43 -0500 Message-ID: <028101c26e6f$cbbcabc0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" To: Cc: References: <200210072125.g97LPgf07798@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: directory structuer for a web server Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:09:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kirk Bailey" Subject: Re: directory structuer for a web server > > > > where should one properly place the directory for the web pages in a web > > server, > > and is there a standard name for it? I have a box with several domains > > in it, so > > I created /www off of root, ant /www/www.foo.foo for each domain > > under /www but > > I suspect this is not a standard solution. Any advice? > Your option sounds as valid as mine or most any other. Some other layouts I've seen have a seperate partition for /home, so the virtual- hosted dirs are /home/clientname. I'm not a security guru, so my reason is not based on security, but I wouldn't go off of / on my box because / is generally a much smaller partition; on most of my boxes /usr is 20x or more the size of the rootdir. I config apache to /usr/local/www/ and use name based VirtualHosts. So, the server's main pages are addressed at /usr/local/www/htdocs, and each virt-hosted client is at /usr/local/www/htdocs/clientabbreviation. Of course, I guess if I get too many more clients, this could become clunky. I link /usr/local/www/htdocs to /www, and each client folder to /clientabbreviation, so one relatively short command line gets me anywhere I'd like to be. I do tend to be careful that folks aren't putting ".." links or commands in their dirs or scripts...although this shouldn't create problems, because a ".." command should go to /usr/local/www/htdocs, I'm pretty paranoid, because, as I said, I'm not a guru when it comes to security... HTH, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message