On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 06:13:06PM +0200, sean finney wrote: > hiya, > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:06:35AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I wonder what might be the apropriate implementation in Debian because > > I do not know that there is anything like a "password-protected cgi-bin > > directory". Has anybody solved a similar problem or is there some > > advise to do this reasonably? > > my advice is that you put the "cgi-bin" binaries in a directory solely for > your own package, i.e. /usr/lib/<pkg>/cgi-bin . then you can set up a > default htaccess file and apache configuration under etc and leave it to the > admin to configure it (or do so via debconf if you want to be fancy). > > i would strongly recommend against putting anything in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, > as use of this directory should be deprecated[1]. > > sean > > [1] yes, i know that (normal, not webapps) policy still points at it and some > packages may still use it, but it should go away regardless.
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