HEADS UP for maintainers of web applications

[Larry Rosenman]

Lupe Christoph wrote:
> Quoting Pav Lucistnik <pav at freebsd.org>:
> 
>> it will soon become mandatory to stop installing web applications
>> into Apache specific directories, like ${PREFIX}/www/data,
>> ${PREFIX}/www/cgi-bin etc.
> 
>> All web applications should be now installed into
>> ${PREFIX}/www/appname. Please keep it in mind when preparing your
>> next port update. 
> 
> Are you saying that a cgi-bin should go into ${PREFIX}/www/appname,
> too? That would require the sysadmin to set ExecCGI for all of
> ${PREFIX}/www. 
> 
> Perhaps you expand on this a little and tell me where the following
> should go:
> 1) HTML files that are to be server by ${HTTPD}
> 2) cgi-bin's that are to be executed by ${HTTPD}
> 3) Data that is not to be accessible either way like e.g. a htpasswd
>    file.
> 

Can we also get a clear definition on what each app (for example Gallery2,
phpPgAdmin, etc)
is supposed to supply to be able to be upgraded when Major Apache versions
(like 2.2) are introduced.

I've had a hell of a time setting up symlink hell for some of these, in
addtion to knowing where
TPTB want us to set up httpd.conf file(s) and equivalents, such that we can
*SAFELY* use portupgrade to keep
up with things.



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