[ALUG] Where to put HTML etc.?

[Chris G]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 07:57:08PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
> > > Anything outside of /var/www gets symlinks.. Bottom line, your system, your 
> > > choice ;-)
> > > 
> > Exactly, but I'm trying to come up with a strategy that isn't just a
> > confused mess.
> 
> So, use:
>     /srv/websites/tld/domain/subdomain
> eg:
>     /srv/websites/uk/co/sommitrealweird/www
> or:
>     /srv/websites/uk/co/www.sommitrealweird.co.uk
> 
> Just decide on a layout and have done with it. (Personally, I have lots
> of sites all over the place, on this particular box I have a django
> server that is fronted by apache's mod_proxy, but the django instance is
> running using fastcgi fronted by lighttpd, the data is in
> /home/brettp/django/alug, which then has code in the alug subdirectory,
> images/other media in alug-media and templates for use in the code in
> alug-templates. My main website is hosted on another box, where it is
> sitting in my home directory as a directory called srw_html, I have
> symlinked public_html to that as I class it as the main site and where
> I'm most likely to want to put things on that box).
> 
Yes, OK, I think it's just that most other things are rather better
defined and you don't end up with such a mess of symlinks and such.

I guess I'll just carry on muddling by (and backing up /var as I do
already).

-- 
Chris Green