apache22 web root directive

Eric eric at mikestammer.com
Mon Sep 10 05:43:03 PDT 2007


Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> Eric wrote:
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>> close, but I am not running in a non standard DocumentRoot as far as I
>> know. its set to apache22's /usr/local/www/apache22/data, which is the
>> default, but if you look at the mailgraph Makefile, it uses
>> /usr/local/www/data for the install.
>>
>> the more i look at it, the more it seems like its a mailgraph issue.
>>
>> i guess I am curious of the apache20 default of /usr/local/www/data was
>> around so long its just what everyone assumes, but from what I can tell,
>> thats not the recommended practice. isnt it better to install to
>> /usr/local/www/mailgraph and then alias things?
>>     
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> Web-based applications will generally install into a subdirectory of
> /usr/local/www independent of what web server you use.  There are
> some exceptions -- eg. cacti installs into /usr/local/share/cacti
>
> This means that you will have to make provision in your httpd.conf
> (or whatever the equivalent is for the webserver you're using) so
> that the filesystem space the application lives in is mapped into
> the URL-space provided by your webserver.  In apache, that typically
> means setting up an alias and then applying appropriate access
> controls in a <Location> or <Directory> block.
>
> Formerly many web applications installed into the apache specific
> directory /usr/local/www/data but this behaviour is now discouraged.
> It's not, AFAIK, absolutely forbidden, but you'ld have a hard time
> getting a new port through committal if it behaved like that. I
> don't think there has been a concerted effort to find all of the
> older ports that install under /usr/local/www/data and modify them;
> rather individual maintainers are expected to modify their ports as
> the occasion arises.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
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yes, and this is how i would prefer to see mailgraph operate as well.  I 
was just pointing out the fact that mailgraph didnt work this way.

Just to be clear, I am not doing anything out of the ordinary or using a 
non-recommended DocumentRoot.

The patch at

http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/mailgraph.diff

appears to work properly, but shouldnt mailgraph be installed to 
/usr/local/www/mailgraph as per the recommendations and an alias added 
to apache for access to mailgraph?

Eric


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