-APPLICATION_DIR="$HOME/apps"
-DEFAULT_REPOSITORY_ROOT="git@github.com:kwentworth"
-CHECKOUT_DIR_NAME="avenger5"
+# the top level of the user's application storage.
+if [ -z "$BASE_APPLICATION_PATH" ]; then
+ export BASE_APPLICATION_PATH="$FEISTY_MEOW_APPS_DIR"
+fi
+# where the code should come from.
+if [ -z "$DEFAULT_REPOSITORY_ROOT" ]; then
+ export DEFAULT_REPOSITORY_ROOT="git@github.com:kwentworth"
+fi
+# we checkout the git repository to a directory underneath the app storage
+# directory named this (see below for "this"), if that directory name is found.
+# this is a saco designs infrastructure standard.
+if [ -z "$CHECKOUT_DIR_NAME" ]; then
+ export CHECKOUT_DIR_NAME="avenger5"
+fi
+# the subfolder that the web browser will look for the site in,
+# underneath the application's specific path.
+if [ -z "$STORAGE_SUFFIX" ]; then
+ export STORAGE_SUFFIX="/public"
+fi