Web Applications Guidelines

Guidelines for installing Web Applications the SME Way. (information provided by Gordon Rowell in the forums. This is a placeholder to capture this nugget of information.)

A common misconception

It is common to install web Applications in ibays, but this is not the best way - There's no need, and it's much better not to.

The SME Way

I-bays are information storage areas, shared between Samba, Appletalk, FTP and the web. They were not designed for web applications, which have their own security and storage requirements.

The Web Application code should be stored somewhere safe and installed by an RPM which also creates the httpd.conf section from a template fragment(s). It doesn't need/want to be in an i-bay.

This is what we did with IMP/Webmail and it is "The Right Way To Do It"[TM]