Hey!

I recently figured got LAMP and phpMyAdmin working, so now I've been playing around with hosting configurations.

I came to Linode from shared hosting, and I want to structure the files similar to how they did.

I would like to be able to have a user account ("dan", for example) as I would with shared hosting. That account would only have access to the home folder. Inside the home folder would be the /public_html and /log folders where "dan" has access to all of the folders (read, write, and execute).

I know I can just change the virtual folder to point to /home/dan/public_html/site_name/, but the LAMP installation guide recommends /srv/www/mysite.com/.

How do web hosts normally structure it? Also, how would I deal with permissions so that "dan" can read, write, and execute the files even if they're not actually in his home folder?

Many thanks!

A lot of the setup is personal preference.

If you're the only one on your server don't worry about making it look like a shared host, if you are going to have others accessing that you don't trust you'll want to check out

http://library.linode.com/security/sftp-jails/

And I'd suggest restricting users to their home folder and setting the virtual hosts to /home/%u/www

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