Best practice for web server setup?

[Victor Padro]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Wipe_Out <wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am wondering if anyone can point me to a "best practice" guide for setting
> up my company web server..
>
> The basics are that I am setting up an Ubuntu 10.04 web server on a VPS
> hosted on the internet.. The server will run our internal web based
> applications and database being accessible from all our business locations..
> It will also at some point in the future host the company website with a
> customer portal so customers can manage their requirements themselves (in
> other words the site will link to the company database on the server)..
>
> In addition to this I want to setup a development site for continued
> development and testing of the applications and website that can then be
> copied to the live site when testing is complete..
>
> Setting up the Ubuntu box and using "tasksel" to create the LAMP server is
> easy enough.. What I am looking at more specifically is setting up the
> virtual hosts for the various sites..
>
> Is it recommended to create user accounts for each function, i.e apps, web
> and dev, and then setup a public_html directory in each home directory and
> get apache to serve the files from there? or should I just create
> subdirectories of /var/www and put them all there to avoid problems running
> the sites (permissions etc.. )??
>
> Any suggestions or things to look out for would be appreciated..
>
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