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[Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>]

On Thursday 20 November 2003 10:16 am, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:12:50AM +0000, Tony Smith wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 November 2003 5:55 am, David Kowis wrote:
> > > IMHO, I don't think we need this, I usually put my server roots (http,
> > > ftp etc) in /home/FTP or /home/apache. So I think that should be left
> > > up to the user. If they want their junk there, then they can move it.
> >
> > I agree. I use /home/ftp and /home/www and would find /srv unnecessary
> > and ugly. It's also another mount point to administer....
>
> The fhs isn't about what the user/admin does with his system, so you
> would be free to use /home/www for your apache instead of /srv/www. 

Yes, I know I can edit httpd.conf etc. I am root after all :-)

> The
> basic idea of /srv is that you can sit down on any distro, install
> apache and know where its default document root is. 
> Not that installing
> a webserver on a distro you don't know is a good idea security wise :P

I guess my main objection is that if you're going to make a "default default" 
make it somewhere that stands a good chance of being on a filesystem other 
than the root FS:

        /usr/local/srv/
        /usr/share/srv
        /var/srv

or something along those lines. For most people, data should not be on a root 
filesystem and the defaults should make that implicitly clear.

Tony