Thank you for your reply
I was thinking of something like
for the documentroot .
just makes it easier to fill in absolute paths in scripts.
Does having the docroot so close to root cause any security problem. I cannot think of any. But just want to double check.
Also how do you manage sftp transfers of files using a client like cuteftp as it is not safe to allow direct root login. So if you login into cuteftp as a member of the wheel group but try to replace files owned by root I think it is not going to allow you to do that right.