Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:23:57 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk> Cc: Christer Gundersen <dtun3z@online.no>, ache@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: apache13-1.3.26 Message-ID: <20020619192357.GC74634@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <200206192221.52433@zappa.athame.co.uk> References: <1024514033.6713.6.camel@carebears.net> <200206192221.52433@zappa.athame.co.uk>
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> > When Apache is upgraded(when it needs a new rebuid), the install will > > delete the contens in /usr/local/www* , this is _very_ bad if you > > have a lot of info here. > > > > What about a solution here? (I`m not a developer, so i cant help. > > sorry) > > You can prevent the data and cgi-bin directories being wiped out by > breaking the symlinks to the *-default directories, then creating data > and cgi-bin as proper directories. > > IMO, the port sucks in this respect (having lost a months worth of work > in the past because of it) > > Just create the dirs instead of symlinks, and all should be fine at the > next portupgrade. > Or you could store your web pages somewhere else and specify that location in httpd.conf -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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