Where do you put all your HTML stuff on a home Linux server?

[Michael A. Peters]

Chris G wrote:
> I've been changing my mind and messing about with this for years and  
> *still* haven't really come to a sensible final conclusion.  It's not
> even that it matters all that much but I wish there was an obvious    
> answer.
I use /srv
as root:
mkdir -p /srv/www.hostname.tld/www
chown -R user:group /srv/www.hostname

You then create a file in /etc/httpd.conf/ that points to 
/srv/www.hostname.tld/www as the DocumentRoot

Works for me.