Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:41:52 -0500 From: Eric <eric@mikestammer.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, rafan@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: apache22 web root directive Message-ID: <46E4A0E0.1010709@mikestammer.com> In-Reply-To: <18148.38048.334086.419648@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <46E482D7.8000305@mikestammer.com> <18148.38048.334086.419648@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote: > Eric writes: > >> Is there a directive to add to make.conf or anywhere else to tell >> ports what directory my webroot is? when i was running apache20, >> things like mailgraph installed files in the proper >> location. Recently I just updated to apache22 and now mailmail >> still insists on creating directories under the old directory >> layout. is this a mailgraph port problem or do I have a missing >> directive somewhere telling ports where my document root is? > > Let me see if I understand: > You're running apache22, with DocumentRoot and/or ServerRoot in > a non-standard location. Because of this, a third-party application > is malfunctioning. > You are looking for a single way for that and other > applications to tell at run-time where the new location is. > No such critter, as far as I know. For those applications that > accept environment variables of command-lind switches, it should be > trivial to write a wrapper script to parse httpd,conf and provide > the correct information. > For a compile-time switch, portupgrade users can use > pkgtools.cfg; others will have to look elsewhere. > > 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? I included the maintainer to see if this is the case and perhaps the Makefile should be changed and or post install instructions can be updated Eric
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