On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:04:29PM +0000, Neil McGovern wrote: > Have a read of > http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/ch-httpd.html
Thanks for the pointer, I gave it a go. I'm looking at some of the dir-or-file-in-var-www bugs reported by Manoj. A recurrent pattern is that of packages that ship, as their static content, a single .html file, usually a form for triggering some CGI app. All of them reported to be buggy store that file as /var/www/file.html. Reading §5.3 of the above link, I wonder whether the following solution would be appropriate: - ship under /etc/apache2/conf.d/ a snippet with an Alias dir mapping the package name to a dir containing the static content (a single html file, usually) - add an index.html -> file.html symlink in that dir For the end user, the change would be from accessing the app as http://localhost/file.html to accessing it as http://localhost/package/. Would that be appropriate? Also, can we do anything better---still remaining FHS-compatible---than documenting that in a NEWS.Debian entry to ease transition to the new URL? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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