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The source directory

In MOD, when we refer to the "source directory", we're talking about the directory that holds all of the MOD files that you've written that contain the content of your site. If you're the only person maintaining the content of the web site, this directory is probably somewhere in your home directory.

Choose a location for your MOD source directory and create it. This is where you'll do all of the maintenance for your web site. The name of this directory doesn't particularly matter, since it won't be displayed anywhere.

When you run the mod2html script, you'll supply the name of this directory as an argument to the script. This is what tells mod2html where to find the source files. The first time you run mod2html on your source directory, it will create a ".mod/" directory just inside of it to store configuration and status information. More about this later.