Re: missing htdocs and logs directories

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

> On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> 
> > The server requires httpd/htdocs and httpd/logs to exist before
> 
> Well, it requires whatever you call the DocumentRoot.
> 
> > being run, but they are not created by the 1.1b5 distribution.
> > I suggest that we distribute an empty logs directory (like before)
> 
> Thing is, there's not a good way to create an empty directory in CVS -
> there actually is a "logs" directory in the CVS repository, but when you
> do a cvs export, it isn't exported, because it's empty. So I've added it
> to http://hyperreal.com/httpd/how-to-release.html (which anyone who's
> planning on releasing an Apache release should read before releasing the
> release as a released release - hey, where'd you get that gun?)

You can touch a .keep_me or something in the directory, and I believe
that it will preserve it.