[svlug] RHL 5.2

[Jonathan Sergent]

In message <19981114141510.A6774 at hugin.imat.com>, Rick Moen writes:
 ] I'm sorry, but I do not see that this supports your assertion in any
 ] way.  In fact, that sounds precisely like a description of the 
 ] correct place for the system HTML tree: "variable data files".

Under this interpretation you could put home directories there too.
Are the web pages system data or user data?  This seems to be our
disagreement.  On some systems, the web pages probably are system
data because the admin installs apache but never does anything with
it.  When you're not using the files at all, it probably doesn't
matter where they are.  On some systems, the vast majority of the 
users have accounts solely so that they can maintain their web
pages (think an ISP system here doing web hosting, for instance).

This doesn't mean /home/httpd makes sense for you, but I think that 
your situation is not as common among web servers as the larger 
distributed environment where it makes sense (since you have an 
automounter, etc. in /home already), or the dedicated web server 
where it makes sense.  There would be people who would be equally 
annoyed to find it in any number of other places.  Most people with 
single user machines don't run web servers on them.

Also, it's easy enough to reconfigure that it's sort of a moot 
point...


--jss.

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