On Tuesday 17 June 2008 16:27:35 Ludwig Nussel wrote:

While moving my files to a new workstation I stumbled across /srv/www. The directory contains a mix of self written stuff and distro packages. So I needed to take care to only copy my own files. I'd assume that someone who actually uses /srv/www in production and cared about the content would have a similar problem when creating backups. The apache packages allows other packages to simply drop a config file into /etc/apache2/conf.d and install e.g. a custom directory alias this way. So files that need to be accessible via http://somehost/foo do not actually need to be stored at /srv/www/htdocs/foo but can reside in e.g. /usr/share/foo. So I wonder what's best practice for packages. Dump stuff into /srv/www or use aliases in the web server config? FHS is quite unspecific wrt use of /srv [1].

I have also thought about this when creating my trac packages. I have decided not to put the trac files below /srv/www/htdocs and instead to provide a conf file. But I am in doubt if this is the right thing. For my ldap-account- manager packages on Packman (which should be moved into the BS), I have decided to install below /srv/www/htdocs without being sure to do the right thing, too. I had a look on other packages. The medaiwiki packages for example are installed below /srv/www/htdocs. One thing I discovered that might infer with an out of /srv/www/htdocs installation is apparmor. It seems that it expects that all web pages are installed below /srv/www/htdocs. For packages installed elsewhere it's rules must be modified. Cheers herbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org