[Discuss] "Stack Script" (shell script) to build Ubuntu LAMP + on Linode

[John Abreau]

/srv is defined by the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard as the place
where "site-specific data which are served by the system"belongs.

But the One And Only True Standard is /var/www ... and /home/apache, and
/usr/local/apache2, and /Library/WebServer/Documents, and /usr/local/httpd,
and /var/apache, and who knows how many other ad-hoc locations that were
used before the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard was hammered out.

I've never heard the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard described as nonstandard
before.



On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <blu at nedharvey.com>
wrote:

> > From: John Abreau [mailto:abreauj at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 9:09 PM
> >
> > Perhaps slightly off-topic, but I like to use /srv instead of /var for my
> > websites. I create a directory /srv/www, give it a very small lvm
> volume, then
> > create a separate lvm volume for each website under /srv/www.
> >
> > That way, If one of the websites goes nuts and tries to fill up the
> disk, it won't
> > stomp on the other websites or the rest of the server.
> > There's already more than enough stuff under /var competing for space.
>
> Of course you could do the same thing, where /var/www/www.foobar.com is
> itself a mountpoint. But by using a nonstandard location such as /srv,
> you're breaking the default selinux and apparmor rules - so you'll have to
> manually configure those rules -
>
> PS. Never expose a web server to the internet without selinux and/or
> apparmor. And various other security measures.
>



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