Which directory should I choose for my PHP projects? Should I use ~/public_html in my home directory or should I choose /var/www and change the owner to have write permissions? What would you recommend?
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4I believe /var/www is the default directory. Also if you're going to use /var/www make sure ownership is given to www-datamartynthewolf– martynthewolf2012-08-13 10:24:59 +00:00Commented Aug 13, 2012 at 10:24
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I prefer doing development in my home directory since I think that is where user files should be placed. But this is a personal choice, do what you think is best and/or easiest to configure. It should not matter that much.
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I prefer using something like ~/development/php in my home dir, and then I either add symlink into /var/www or declare a virtual host in Apache pointing to my directory.
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ccman
How do you declare a virtual host?
matteomattei
This is my same configuration (~/src/projectname and then a symlink in /var/www/ or /srv/www/)
Milan Babuškov
Depending of your setup, it configured in httpd.conf or vhosts.conf or a similar file. The syntax is explained in Apache docs.
I believe /var/www is the default directory. Also if you're going to use /var/www make sure ownership is given to www-data
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It's good idea to put as little as possible of your source code in web-accessible places ( /var/www ) so that if your machine is misconfigured your source isn't public.
