Packaging guidelines for web applications?

[Mike McGrath]

On 5/7/06, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:

> The apache stuff in /var/www probably should be in /usr/share (except
> the default DocumentRoot root which IMHO should be in /srv/www/html )

the whole /var/www/ thing has puzzled me as well.  I think we should
have a partitioned place for web applications.  Perhaps just because I
use a lot of web apps.  /usr/share/www/packagename/ seems very
reasonable to me.

> You shouldn't need to patch anything to get it to work from /usr/share
> instead of /var/www - it should be done with a config file
> in /etc/httpd/conf.d/

I've run into issues with config files for the actual application
which, according to FHS, should be in /etc.  But the web apps don't
like it when we just move stuff on 'em.  And then if you have a web
app that does polling and stores files those shouldn't be in
/usr/share but in /var/something depending on the type of content. 
Some web apps also have their own logs.

> What type of patching are you required to do for FHS guideline
> compliance?

Basically just letting apps know that they will be storing files
(logs, config's, spools, cache, misc) in /var/whatever instead of a
path relative to the app which its used to.

         -Mike