[BlueOnyx:08692] Re: home directory suggestion

[Stephanie Sullivan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Stauber [mailto:mstauber at blueonyx.it]
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 10:30 PM
> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:08688] Re: home directory suggestion
> 
> Hi Ernie,
> 
> > What if we call that directory public_html or userweb or something
> to
> > differntiate it from the site pages?
> 
> Same problem: CMU in some sites from an older box and it'll be a lot
> of fun to
> sort out the complications that this will cause.
> 
> > Progams like Dreamweaver have been reported to put the siteadmin
> into the
> > personal web directory not /web as it seems to ignore the leading
> slash.
> 
> Well, our ProFTPd is configured in a way that the siteAdmin *should*
> end up in
> the Vsite's /web directory. Provided he logs in with a siteAdmin
> account of
> the Vsite in question and has FTP'd to the FQDN of the Vsite in
> question.
> 
> If some FTP clients still get that wrong because their code sucks,
> then I
> don't really see it as our problem.
> 
> --
> With best regards
> 
> Michael Stauber

With respect to dreamweaver and as a user since the 90's starting with
Dreamweaver3... This issue has ALWAYS been a "cockpit errors" with the user
omitting the "/" and in some cases putting in a "\" instead...

Which brings me to a small rant - since when did "/" become a "backslash"
--- for my whole life when someone wrote (as in handwriting) a "slash"
character it was that slash. If you are a left-to-right language writer it's
leaning so if it fell it would fall in the direction of the next letter
(forward). The "\" has always been the "backslash" in handwriting. 

It's sooo George Orwell - yes mean no, bad means good, backslash means
slash... 

Thanks for allowing me to indulge my insanity!

	-Stephanie