From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 11 14:38:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093E316A44D; Thu, 11 May 2006 14:38:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from thebighonker.lerctr.org (thebighonker.lerctr.org [192.147.25.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91F443D80; Thu, 11 May 2006 14:38:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lerami; d=lerctr.org; b=cyMkeOh9vHEBcJ1zpq2KaV2EXN9sBh/Z1j7J9Wjnl/ngFBsKnkHuOYG8yBEfxbBM0wRQZgb/KVygsod7BJZrFA8mImVJSyXKdupWvBvBtrd6HxMGU5B8UD42SkUD8JW4Ii8rti0RCoo9CMYi0p8MaR++mXIGB4VakR3iR/0GL6A=; Received: from [64.132.13.2] (port=41129 helo=LROSENMAC8010P) by thebighonker.lerctr.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FeCJY-000235-5u; Thu, 11 May 2006 09:38:53 -0500 From: "Larry Rosenman" To: "'Lupe Christoph'" , Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 09:38:13 -0500 Message-ID: <00ba01c67508$88618b40$0202fea9@aus.pervasive.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <1147356487.4463454775612@buexe.b-5.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Thread-Index: AcZ1B5fhHPAVQHHhQuWbJ92ooqURVgAAKm0A X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-LERCTR-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8 BAYES_00=-2.599 DK_POLICY_SIGNALL=0.001 X-LERCTR-Spam-Report: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8 BAYES_00=-2.599 DK_POLICY_SIGNALL=0.001 DomainKey-Status: no signature Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: RE: HEADS UP for maintainers of web applications X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 14:39:03 -0000 Lupe Christoph wrote: > Quoting Pav Lucistnik : > >> 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. -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3893