[nycbug-talk] why /var?

[csnyder]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:31:27 -0500 (EST), Dru <dlavigne6 at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> Out of pure innocent curiosity, why do you prefer /var? I don't see the
> logic as I never thought of a website as "variable" data but I'm
> interested in hearing someone else's point of view.
> 
> Dru

I think using /var for a website implies that there is only one
website on the host. I was suprised to see this when I first started
using FreeBSD, but I accept it now as "one of those things." It's
better than /usr/local/apache/htdocs for sure.

For virtual hosting setups, or situations where multiple users need to
access the same site, I always put them in the /home tree as
/home/<virtual host name>