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Date:      Tue, 27 Oct 1998 08:46:28 -0800
From:      Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        info@boatbooks.com
Subject:   Directory arrangement (etc.) for multi-user web server
Message-ID:  <3635F8E4.2FF8@echidna.com>

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I'm setting up a FreeBSD/Apache (or Stronghold-Apache for SSL) system to 
be a web/ftp/mail server.

The system will eventually support a fair number of domains, some with 
their own IP addresses, some hosted under a single IP.

As this is my first time at this, I'm wondering if there are any 
conventional ways of organizing things, for convenience, security (esp. 
with use of SSL), ease of backup, and so on. As far as WWW access 
is concerned, Apache itself seems quite flexible in this regard.


For example, one host I use running FreeBSD has a symlink under each user 
account, like

usr/home/user1/public_html --> usr/www/users/user1
usr/home/user2/public_html --> usr/www/users/user2

etc.

and all the www accessible information is thus stored under usr/www . 
Daily gzipped user clog files are placed in a directory under 
usr/home/userx (presumably by a cron job).


I have lots of other questions (e.g, regarding logs, user cgi access, 
ftp, email forwarding and POP), but perhaps there is some place this sort 
of thing is addressed without my having to reinvent the wheel?


-- 
Graeme Tait - Echidna

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