From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 30 22:29:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.datasys.net (kiwi.datasys.net [209.119.145.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E951503A for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 22:29:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ayan@kiwi.datasys.net) Received: (from ayan@localhost) by kiwi.datasys.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA50805 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 01:29:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ayan) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 01:29:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Ayan George Message-Id: <199907310529.BAA50805@kiwi.datasys.net> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: philosophy of web administration Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello all, I work at a rapidly growing ISP. Charged with the task of installing a new web server, I'm faced with this dilema: The current web server is Linux based. All users use their home directory to store web data -- not ~user/public_html. For a _long_ time, virtual domains were all kept in a separate directory. We've recently started putting customer's virtual domain information into subdirectories in their home directories like: ~user/mydomain.com/ I'd like to implement a standard web directory structure where a user has to place his or her web information in the standard public_html directory. If they want a domain, a subdirectory called domains will be added. Under it, directories for each of their domains would reside like: ~user/public_html/ ~user/domains/mydomain.com/ ~user/domains/myseconddomain.com/ ~user/domains/logs/ ( for log files for domains. ) I think this system will require less maintainance when customers create a domain and the files related to their user personal home pages and those for their domains never intersect. Another consideration is that we currently have approximately 300 customers who are used to the current way of publishing their web pages. Okay, my questions: (1) Does my web directory hierarcy make sense? (2) Is all of this worth bugging 300 customers for? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message