[svlug] RHL 5.2

[Javilk]

> >     As a professional webmaster, I would say that /home is a good place
> >for it, as it is something you want to preserve between installations, and
> >maintain frequent backups of; while /usr, if not complete with /usr/local
> >on a separate drive, is wiped clean during installs. (Though not

> As someone who also hosts quite a few sites, I would Never use /home for 
> web docs. I always setup a dedicated partition for Apache outside the
> standard directory tree. 

     That is reasonable too.   Just as long as it is not part of the
upgraded partitions.

     I notice that my ISP, who use FreeBSD, put it in /webadmin/home/webN,
and users in /users/uN, with an N for each of several drives on each
machine. 

> /home is for real login users only on my system, and Apache is NOT a 
> login user, it's a "system" user. You wouldn't have /home directories 
> for the "mail", "lp", "news" users would you? Since Apache's log files 
> can grow Very large, Very fast, I tend to keep them away from the 
> standard places too.

> Also, since RedHat puts crap in /home the argument of leaving /home alone
> during install / upgrades fails.

    Now that you mention it, it does!  I always have to put my index.html
back, and then re-do my config files.

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