Packaging into /srv? (was: FHS Compliance?)

[Florian La Roche]

> I don't think it's at all unreasonable to ship with the default document
> root at /srv/www, which would be empty by default. If you make anything else
> the document root, many people are just going to edit stuff *there*.
> 
> Anyone who wants a different arrangement than the default can edit the
> document root in httpd.conf, no problem, but there'd be a sensible and
> standard default already. From the FHS:
> 
>    Therefore, no program should rely on a specific subdirectory structure of
>    /srv existing or data necessarily being stored in /srv. However /srv
>    should always exist on FHS compliant systems and should be used as the
>    default location for such data.
> 
> What I'm suggesting covers both parts of this, not just the first.


Though the current places are also standard for a long time and
also covered in many books. Keeping to them and having sysadmins
change them to /srv/ might keep FC/RHEL to more conservative
setups and stability.

regards,

Florian La Roche