Hi all, I'm going to buy a linode vps and I want to use it for many purpose:

- redmine + svn/git for project managing and repositories
- a groupware server ( egroupware / zimbra / something else )
- many site hosting

So I have my main website with /var/svn and /var/git for repository and I'm a bit confused on how to structure it for websites.

I usually have only 1 localhost webserver and I have only 1 website on it. So before starting configuring my vps I want to ask you: which is the best way to organize my server?

I have 5 sites (example) to handle.
Have I to create 5 apache configuration ( site-enabled ) that point to 5 different home locations?

- /home/project1/public_html/
- /home/project2/public_html/
- so on....

Is this the best way? How do you do?
Sorry for the stupid question but I want to make my server very clean on the structure

I think the answer that there is no right answer, so if you can come up with a structure that is manageable and makes sense to you, it's fine :-)

With that said, for my own systems, I've taken to using the /srv tree for most of my major hierarchies. You can use the top level as a service divider (e.g., /srv/svn, /srv/www) and the next level for per-machine/user/host, or invert the order, which is typically what I do (so /srv/xxxx/{svn,www,db,...} where xxxx is a company or common category for all the functions. Or combine the two approaches...

I also try to ensure uniqueness of the naming of the tree for any given purpose, so that when looking at multiple systems, I could theoretically combine all of their /srv trees safely if I wanted. Or taken another way, regardless of machine, a given /srv/xxx tree always has the same purpose.

I normally go ahead and make /srv (or for larger setups, each /srv/xxx) its own disk image for my Linode.

-- David

I go for the /home route, i.e.
/home/user/public_html
/home/user1/public_html
etc etc.
Then I have /home/git/user and /home/git/user1 to hold the git repos.

No real reason for it, probably because I started off with shared hosting on cpanel years ago which always sticks you in /home/user/public_html

Some of my clients have stuff in /srv and that works too.

Just pick something that you feel most comfortable with and stick to it.

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