Hello,

I am hosting more than one website on my linode 512 with following linod's instructions about setting up a website.

In Ubuntu 10.04 LTS guide it says put your files under /home/user/public_html/site-name/public but in LAMP guide it says to put your files under /srv/www/site-name/public_html

Whats the difference between those and whats the perfect location to host files for multiple sites?

Thanks,

It's up to you really, if you're the only one on the server there's no difference.

If you have other users uploading files then /home tends to be easier since thats where they will have write access.

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Internet served files should be stored under /srv.

See the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html


However it's your server so feel free to break that standard if you like.

I host all my site files under /rock

But Shhhhhh don't tell any of the bad guys they're there.


YMMV

I have a personal preference of saving all storage data (mail, web, FTP, projects, etc - although not DNS zone files) under /space.

The previous guy who managed the Linux servers where I work had a preference of using /brukere (Norwegian for "users"), but when it came time to reinstall some servers and migrate data from an old server to its new home, I used my preferred base path for all new and migrated data (making sure all customer scripts using a full path were using the new path in the process, of course).