Joey Hess, 2003-12-06 21:20:19 +0100 : > Maybe it's time to think about amending section 11.5. of policy (Web > servers and applications) to address some of the problems with it. Here > are the problems I know of:
[...] > - If you use vhosts, you can only have one pointing to /var/www, > so only one will get the debian content provided there. To add it to the > others, you have to maintain lots of symlinks. [...] > - Any others? Yes. I'd love to have a proper way of packaging a web application that needs its own vhost(s). Case study: gforge, which needs two fixed vhosts, as well as a potential infinity of optional ones. Happily, the main vhost uses PHP files located in /usr/share/gforge/www/ and /usr/share/gforge/cgi-bin/ (or so). The second one uses Mailman's files so it's currently not my problem but it might become so if the Mailman package suddenly provides its own vhost. [...] > 11.5. Web servers and applications > > 11.5.1. Filesystem locations for web-accessible content > > This section describes the filesystem locations that should be > used for web-accessible content provided by the Debian system. > > CGI executable files are installed in > /usr/lib/cgi-bin/<cgi-name>. I suggest adding a "...or /usr/lib/cgi-bin/<package>/<cgi-name>" in there. > HTML documents for a package are stored in > /usr/share/doc/<package>. > > Web applications should store static web-accessible files (icons, > non-documentation html pages, etc), under /usr/share/<package> and > /usr/lib/<package>. Variable web-accessible files (such as mrtg > graphs) may be stored under /var/lib/<package>. I suggest adding a mention of PHP files here. One could argue that they are CGI files, but I'm not sure. In the case of Gforge, the URLs do not include any cgi-bin/ part, and I'm very reluctant to add it. [...] > 11.5.2. URLs for web-accessible content > > This section specifies the URLs that should be used to access > web-accessible content provided by the Debian system. > > The Debian web content will be available at the URL > http://<site>/debian-www/. This includes > http://<site>/debian-www/cgi-bin for CGI programs, > http://<site>/debian-www/doc for documentation, and > http://<site>/debian-www/<application> for web application data. > > These URLs should also work for any virtual hosts on the Debian > system, unless the administrator has chosen to not include the > Debian content on a virtual host. I'd really like the possibility of having one application have its own vhost that it may manage for itself. Roland. -- Roland Mas prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 This-is-not-a-pipe|
