THE VIRTUAL SERVER HANDBOOK

Understanding the Virtual Web

Service directory structure

The Virtual Web Service configuration files, log files, HTML documents

and CGI scripts are all located in subdirectories of the

~/usr/local/etc/httpd

 directory. As a convenience to you, the link

~/www

 is a shortcut to the 

~/usr/local/etc/httpd

 directory. This

handbook uses both directory references since they are interchangeable.

A description of the each Virtual Server www subdirectory is found in the

table below.

cgi bin

The default directory for CGI scripts.

cgi src

Contains source code supporting compiled CGI scripts in

the cgi bin directory.

conf

Web Server configuration files (httpd.conf srm.conf,

access.conf and mime.types) that define and control the

behavior or your Virtual Web Service are stored in the

conf subdirectory.

htdocs

Contains all HTML documents or other web content you

author or publish.

icons

Contains several graphical icons that are used when a

directory listing is shown to a browser client. Several

default icons are included in this directory.

logs

Your Virtual Web Service keeps detailed logs of the

documents that are requested and by whom. These logs

are stored in the logs subdirectory.

support

The support subdirectory contains a few utilities that may

be of some use to you. Many of these utilities are now

incorporated into the Apache web server software as

modules. This directory may be safely removed if desired.

modules

The modules subdirectory contains modules that can be

added dynamically to your apache web server. Refer to

the modules section of this chapter for more information.

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