2009/10/9 vijay shanker vijaydshanker@gmail.com
Hi Linux geeks,
I have just started to setup a production server with centos; and moved from windows server to centos. My first encounter with this great linux distro is good.
I am not able to understand what is the point of having scattered folders for apache server installation.
when i see the /etc/httpd folder; it has only conf folder and links to logs, module and , run. As i have been working on Windows where all these files are stored in a single installation folder.
So, this makes me quite confused to start with.
Can anyone tell me what is the idea behind using such a installation pattern.
Now i am going to install java, I have two options via RPM and other is extracting the distro and use it. i have a feeling if i use first option, all the folders like jre and jdk will be palced any where. Not to be found.
Please tell me or point to any relevant link. so i can go ahead without any doubt over this issue.
rpm -ql <package name>
will tell you were the package's files are
rpm -ql <package name> | grep conf
will show only those files having 'conf' in their names. * for jdk, i use the .bin, not the .rpm. (but i'm only interested in plugin) * docs are everywhere but you can start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard