New package for review : lighttpd

[Matthias Saou]

Per Bjornsson wrote :

> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 21:19 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> 
> > I've also changed the home of the lighttpd user from /var/log/lighttpd
to
> > /var/www/lighttpd as it makes more sense.
> 
> Hmm, so what about the /srv tree? Now, I realize that defaulting Apache
> to using something under /srv could easily break lots of installations,
> but you're defaulting lighttpd to something new anyways so perhaps
> putting it under /srv/www/lighttpd or somesuch...
> 
> Relevant part of FHS 2.3:
> "The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as
> there is currently no consensus on how this should be done. One method
> for structuring data under /srv is by protocol, eg. ftp, rsync, www, and
> cvs. On large systems it can be useful to structure /srv by
> administrative context, such as /srv/physics/www, /srv/compsci/cvs, etc.
> This setup will differ from host to host. 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."
>
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM
> 
> Somehow /srv just makes more sense to me than /var for this, now that it
> exists. (The /srv directory is provided by "filesystem" in FC3. Of
> course, this is just a nitpick/suggestion, feel free to disagree, but
> taking the opportunity to move toward closer FHS compliance in a non-
> breaking way sounds like a reasonable deal to me.

I actually agree completely and totally with the above! :-) Especially
since we're talking about an initial package, and not possibly breaking
upgrades and sysadmin habits ;-)
So... I'll go with /srv/www/lighttpd, then? Or is there already some kind
of consensus for RH/FC about how to structure directories under /srv? Maybe
/srv/lighttpd directly? I think I prefer with at least an indication of the
protocol, myself.

Matthias

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