Creating a Folder Hierarchy in WorldServer
About this task
Now that you have created a mount, you can create folders under the mount. We recommend that you place the locale folders directly under the mount folder, as we do in this tutorial, for the following reasons:
- By default, a folder inherits the properties of its parent, so if you define a locale at a high level, lower levels of folders and assets inherit that locale.
- It takes a little bit of setup to establish locale folders so establishing them at a higher level can mean less setup work. We’ll work through those setup steps later in this tutorial.
There may be good reasons to use a different organizational scheme. For example, you may want to organize your directories by company division (such as education, documentation, and marketing, with locale folders under each division folder. This organization has the advantage of leading appropriate users to the right content, but may involve a little more setup.
To set up the folder hierarchy for the tutorial: