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  • From: "Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Directory Architecture Help
  • Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:12:14 -0500 (EST)

I'm trying to figure out how to arrange the directory structure for a site
I'm preparing. I'd like for the site to have both public and private
pages. The private pages will, for the most part, belong to or be
accessible by the same small group of people. Also, within the mass of
pages, there won't be any obvious rule for which will be public and which
will be private, and the status for any given page can change; for
example, within any given user's subdirectory (or sub-subdirectory, etc.)
s/he might designate some, all, or no pages as private. (Again, some
pages might be uniquely restricted, but for the most part the designation
of private means simply that it won't be available to the web surfers at
large -- there will be only one private "area" within the site.)

This is the idea I had:

mysite.com containing /public, /private, and /actualfiles. /actualfiles
would contain the largesse of the files, and /public and /private would be
sorts of mirrors, containing symlinks to the respective files in
/actualfiles. /private would, of course, require login rights. lastly,
the website itself would refer only to /public or /private, such that urls
were of the format mysite.com/public/file or
mysite.com/private/otherdirectory/file

I could be missing something obvious here.... Any thoughts?

-Alan





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