I have a Linux (CentOS) host that hosts 5 websites of mine. There are two different PHP frameworks (Yii & Zend), each of my sites is based on one of them. Where would be an appropriate place to keep them, with what permissions? I though of two variants but I have doubts that any of them is the right thing to do.
In my projects, which reside in for example /home/example.com/public_html/index.php I would do require_once($pathToFrameworkInitFile)
Variant 1:
Under /usr/local/, user root with permissions 755:
/usr/local/frameworks/yii/yii-1.1.9/
/usr/local/frameworks/yii/yii-1.1.10/
/usr/local/frameworks/zend/zend-1.11.12/
Variant 2:
Under user frameworks with permissions 755: /home/frameworks/yii/yii-1.1.9/ /home/frameworks/yii/yii-1.1.10/ /home/frameworks/zend/zend-1.11.12/
Variant 3:
I hope that you might suggest something better.
As you suppose - I have full root access to the host and I'm managing both websites and host myself, so I'm looking for the best (or at least good enough) practice.
After reading more about the Unix FS Hierarchy Standard, I decided to put the frameworks in:
/opt/php-frameworks/yii-(version)
/opt/php-frameworks/zend-(version)
With permissions 755, under the root account. Most best practices say that the framework should be out of the docroot and /opt seems ideal for such libraries as php frameworks.
This is very subjective. You can put it where you want. I liked to put the webapplication in /opt/www/project or /var/www/project.
And I don't like to share the framework parts of the application. Think about moving a Project to a new Server, or updating the frameworks.
The owner has to be the user who changes the files. If you are root, then let root own the framework files.