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Robert
Asked: 2011-05-07 16:02:03 +0800 CST

/home/vhosts/ or /var/www/

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Some web servers I've come across use /home to store the site files:

/home/vhosts/www.example.com/

Others use /var like:

/var/www/www.example.com/

What's more clean and "Linuxy"? Should we all be using /usr/local/www/?

Possible sources: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/linuxdir.html

linux web-server storage home-directory

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  1. Best Answer

    According to Chapter 3 of the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) 2.3, data for services provided by a server should go under /srv, but leaves the organization under it pretty much in charge of each specific system.

    I would recommend /srv/www/<domain> or if the server is providing multiple services per domain something like /srv/<domain>/<service> (service being www, ftp, svn, etc).

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  2. Red Hat and Debian use /var/www. If I was accessing an unfamiliar server, that is the first place I would look for a web server's document root.

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