[Pdbwiki-devel] PDBWiki now running on the bifx.org server

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Congrats!

Regarding the crazy symlinks, blame it on cPanel and the Linux/BSD/Unix community disagreeing on where things should be located.

cPanel: I would rather not have some half-dozen partitions, and I don't trust resizing them on a mounted volume.  As a result, I have to keep large directories under the largest partition and create symlinks.  So, only /usr/local ->  /home/local is my doing ;-)

Linux/BSD/Unix: /usr, /usr/local, /home, /opt, /etc, (/var/local is a new one to me)... you know the story.  BTW, I think Mac OSX wins the prize for the most confusing layout among the Unixes.

To help cut through the confusion, I create "/*root" symlinks in the root directory, e.g., /httpdroot.

Cheers,
Jeff

On 12/17/2010 12:44 PM, Dan Bolser wrote:
> Seems the DNS records have finally updated, and http://PDBWiki.Org is
> now being served from the httpd://bifx.org httpd server.
>
> So far everything looks good!
>
>
> It took me longer than expected to decipher the Apache configuration
> on dallas0 (even though I have used it in anger several times before).
> To help, I've updated some of the information here:
>
> http://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/Bioinformatics.Org_Wiki:Configuration
>
>
> I particularly like this nugget of information:
>
> /var/log/httpd ->  /etc/httpd/logs
> /etc/httpd ->  /usr/local/apache
> /usr/local ->  /home/local
>
>
> which I should probably describe with examples like the .config file
> redirects, but you get the general idea ;-)
>
>
> Please let me know if you find any problems.
>
> Dan.