I'm reorganizing an entire site that uses a simple content manager that I developed with Perl, HTML::Template, the MS DHTML Editing Component, and MySQL. At the risk of this being OT, my question is where to put everything to keep the file tree as clean as possible, make it easy to maintain, avoid confusion in paths to things, be secure, and generally be a smart monk. Here's what I have planned: 
   ROOT DIR--+
             |
          CGI-BIN-----+
             |        |
             |   single Perl script that handles
             |   all input and DB maintenance
             |   
          TEMPLATES---+
             |        |
             |   all page .tmpl's
             |   and editor.tmpl
             |
          ADMIN-------+  (protected)
             |        |
             |    index.html (calls admin scripts)
             |
          index.cgi (calls loader.cgi?pg=index)
             |
          loader.cgi (fetches content from db and displays tmpl)
             |
          data.txt (db connect info--needs to go in secure dir)
             |
          external.js (for various javascript)
             |
          external.css

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Comments? TIA.

Update: Added ADMIN directory

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