On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:04:15PM +0000, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 12:07:12AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > > Are the files purely written by Apache or are they configuration > > files? If the latter, then I think they should reside in /etc. > > Otherwise I think /var/lib is the correct place for them. > > Both unfortunately. > > There's a couple of site-wide configuration files which appear > to be read only, and a tree of user files. (One for each user > registered upon the site, etc). > > Unfortunately these files must reside in the same location, > so splitting them into a conf file and some data files doesn't > appear to be an option.
you could use symlinks. put all the files in /var/lib/whatever, and put symlinks in /etc. > > Shouldn't they be installed as whatever user Apache is running as when > > installed out of the box (or you could even parse the httpd.conf in > > your postinst)? Then only Apache should be able to modify them, unless > > the local administrator has decided otherwise. shouldnt you just install with whatever apache does by default (www-data)? that way you dont have to do any parsing in your postinst. -- gram
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