Ok, I am a beginner at webserver management. All my previous
experience has been with the development of e-learning products where
the placement of content and files are specifically stated in
contracts. But I currently have been developing and uploading a
webserver at the house to be a training server where I can play
without embarrassing myself on the WWW. I am currently using a MAC G3
B&W that has been loaded with Fedora 6, Apache 2.2.4, MySQL 5.0.37,
and PHP 5.2.1. I finally found good, understandable instructions on
how to ./configure, make, and make install for all the above and
everything went fine. My problem now comes when I start modifying the
HTTPD.CONF document.

As a standard, how do I state where I want my www root documents to
go. I found the location in the httpd.conf document where it is
stipulated, but is there a normal file/folder structure that web
administrators use to put websites that are hosted by that server???
do I make a www root folder or what???

respectfully,
Anthony Jackman
US Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer (ret)
multimedia/e-learning developer

On 2007-05-11, graphicsgeek <ambassador_kosh@hotmail.com> wrote:
> As a standard, how do I state where I want my www root documents to
> go. I found the location in the httpd.conf document where it is
> stipulated, but is there a normal file/folder structure that web
> administrators use to put websites that are hosted by that server???

The structure has to be 'right' for you, if it serves your purposes is
ok.

> do I make a www root folder or what???

Whatever you want, if you want a /www directory, use it.
The Fedora default is to have a /var/www/ directory and inside it a
'html' one for html documents (the DocRoot) so you can keep cgis and
the like outside the DocRoot.

See the documentation.

Davide

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