My PHP application directory structure

Posted in Development on September 19, 2006

PHP

Rob Allen, who is on PHPWM and who I met at the recent PHPWM meeting in Worcester posted something on his blog detailing his prefered directory structure recently.

Here's mine, seemingly nicked straight from FHS:

/home/$USER/www/$PROJECT:

/codebase
         /bin             // anything with a shebang in
         /etc             // config files
         /htdocs          // document root
         /lib
             /class
             /function
 /sql                     // MySQL dumps with data
 /tmp
     /cache
 /var
     /log                 // just app logs, not server

Everything in /codebase is under version control.

All apps are served from respective home directories. Each developer has their own local Bind zone, their own httpd.conf (with a correctly configured sudo so they can edit it themselves) and each application has a single global settings file that can work out the user running the code so the paths are the same and it should Just Work in a multiple developer environment.

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