It's better to have a sub-directory in /var/www for default web files

[Omid Mottaghi]

It's better to have a sub-directory in /var/www for default web files. Because /var/www is a directory for web sitessss.

For example, I want create two websites for two different users? Or I want to limit access to my own dir? Or ...
I can do all of these now, but its really more structural, to have a directory in the /var/www for default web site. So then if I install a web based application (eg. phpMyAdmin) it creates its link to this default web site directory.

I think that it is a bug!

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

 /var/www is just the default. If you wish to have multiple websites for different users then you need to take a look at virtual hosts.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP#Virtual Hosts

[Omid Mottaghi (omidmottaghi)]

Thanks Alan.

But I know how to set up a virtual host. I used to have my own virtual hosts in my own directory, but /home/user MUST have read access for others and it is not a good permission for my home directory! I really prefer to change my home directory permission to 700.

So, I changed my default web directory to something like /var/www/default, but most of web applications goes wrong, and I MUST move their symbolic link from /var/www to /var/www/default.

I know I can handle this, but I thought it really better to have a sub directory in /var/www for the default web site!

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

/var/www has been the default for ages. I don't see why it should be moved to /var/www/default. Most of the web applications expect it to be so.

[Omid Mottaghi (omidmottaghi)]

But in RedHat, there is another directory in /var/www for default website.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Omid Mottaghi <email address hidden> wrote:
> But in RedHat, there is another directory in /var/www for default
> website.

That's all ***very*** configurable via normal Apache configuration means.

The default location in Ubuntu is /var/www. You can run hundreds of
other websites as you desire in /var/www/* or anywhere you desire by
configuring /etc/apache2/sites-available/*, and enabling the site with
a2ensite.

:-Dustin