Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 12:47:37 -0700 (PDT) From: George Bonser To: Rick Moen cc: Nathan Myers , svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] WWW vs. FHS On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Rick Moen wrote: > The original question, again, is where does the document root belong, > and why. You're right that, if everything but the top-level index.html > file can be found homes elsewhere, then the problem disappears, since > that can be somewhere in /etc. I say there is no one correct place unless one is made. Here is an example: Imagine a company website with information on the company at the main doc root, then there are areas for its employees to enter timecard info, grab HR documents, enter purchase requests. There are areas for updating other databases of information, scheduling appointments, looking at calanders. There might be an on-line store for customers to order products or services. If you try to look at each document or function and try to put it into its proper place in the system, you end up with documents scattered everywhere. When the FSSTD was first designed, they had no idea that the web would become what it is today and no neat space was made for it. That is why I think we really need to make it a place of its own. There is no other function on the computer that matches. The only other thing is to develop a web server where you make the document root the root directory and control access on a directory by directory and file by file basis.