Re: [cpx] www or not www that is the question... but not the only one ;)

[Scott Wiersdorf <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:22:47PM -0000, Bob Browning wrote:
> So that the directory tree under www is the same to every server - and
> incidentally the same as under vhosts/<USER> and our in-house test system.
> I am sure you can see why this is useful to a programmer.  
> 
> Scott - is this a bad thing to do?  Why domain.tld??

The domain.tld directory gives you several things:

- you immediately know the website being hosted by looking at the
  directory (no having to grok httpd.conf for DocumentRoots, etc.)
- if ever this user wants to host another site, nothing needs to
  change--just add another domain2.tld and everything just works.

For example, if joe has one website "joe.com" located in the directory
"~/www/joe.com" and he decides to also host "joesparts.net" as a
second domain in "~/www/joesdomain.net", nothing about joe.com needs
to change in order to add this second domain. Under the 'htdocs'
scheme, to be consistent you'd need to change httpd.conf and possibly
a variety of other locations.

If you're needing 'htdocs' for programmatic reasons (e.g., CGI scripts
or whatever), I'd be happy to help (off-list) work through some logic
issues or whatever to work with the suggested scheme. We've solved
this problem already and would love to pass on whatever help we can
to you.

Scott
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