On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Always Learning centos@u61.u22.net wrote:
But, can you still 'yum install' any/all of the large number of packaged web applications from the base and 3rd party repos that will drop additional files into conf.d and expect a certain base setup?
Definitely. That is essential. Non-operating system customisations go in /data
But there is nothing related in those two statements. It would be equally true if you put your customizations in differently named files under /etc/httpd/conf.d and in directories under /var/www/html. The difference is that anyone familiar with the standard layout could look at a system and understand it quickly where your non-standard locations would have to be carefully documented and a new admin would need to waste time figuring it out.