Where should websites live on Centos servers?

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I am re-organising some web servers, the majority of which are running the Centos linux distro.

Each of these servers has multiple sites being served using virtual hosts.

Is there a "correct" place that the source for each of these sites should be kept?

The two main options seem to be in /home and /var/www

eg

/home/ /home/

or

/var/www/ /var/www/

Whilst I know it doesn't make a massive difference, the aim of re-organising these servers is to get everything standardised so I would like to know of any reasons as to why one of these may be preferred over the other or if there is a "normal" way of doing it.

Thanks

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 04 '11 at 10:47

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According to the File System Hierachy standard /srv/www would be correct. It is for data that is served by the system.

answered May 04 '11 at 10:47

Alex

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Not *necessarily* `/srv/www` specifically, but certainly somewhere under `/srv`. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 06 '11 at 06:18

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '11 at 04:10

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I typically use /var/www/html for single sites, or /var/www/sitename for multiple site setups. It's fairly consistent and CentOS/RHEL points you in that direction...

answered May 08 '11 at 04:10

ewwhite

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installing apache on centos will defaultly use /var/www/html. – grufftech May 08 '11 at 05:40

Where should websites live on Centos servers?

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