Specify another directory rather than /home for websites?

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#1 Thu, 09/06/2012 - 10:10
matimont

Specify another directory rather than /home for websites?

Hi,

Is there a way in Virtualmin to tell the system to use a different directory for a website rather than /home?

I have a partition of 20GB mounted on a directory called /extraspace and would like to use that one instead of home for new virtual servers, my old virtual servers are in /home but I may run out of space if I continue adding sites to that directory.

Thank you!

Thu, 09/06/2012 - 11:30
andreychek

Howdy,

That sounds like it's related to your question here:

https://www.virtualmin.com/node/23265

Is it possible? Yes.

It is easy? No :-)

All your config files are setup to use /home already, and it's not trivial to change all those.

However, even if you were starting from scratch, suexec is setup to work using /home, and it can take some work to get it to use an alternate directory.

Our recommendation is to do the steps mentioned in your other post -- to mount your partition at another location, copy all your data to it -- and then once all your data is on it, to mount that drive as /home.

-Eric

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