Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:11:41 -0500 From: Eric <heli@mikestammer.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation directory best practices Message-ID: <44B6549D.8050204@mikestammer.com> In-Reply-To: <44B621E0.5030909@vonostingroup.com> References: <000001c6a662$bce0e920$36a2bb60$@net> <44B621E0.5030909@vonostingroup.com>
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Frank Laszlo wrote:
> Babak Farrokhi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wonder if there is any particular guideline for installation of web
>> based
>> application (the ports which install web pages, like www/wordpress,
>> www/serendipity or databases/phpmyadmin).
>>
>> Some ports install web pages into "www/${PORTNAME}" while others install
>> into "www/data-dist/${PORTNAME}" or even into "share/${PORTNAME}".
>> However most of these ports let you override the installation path by
>> defining particular variables, but user should review Makefile before
>> installation to find out which variable should be set.
>>
>
> I believe that installing into www/data-dist/${PORTNAME} is a security
> risk, installing unconfigured applications into a web readable directory
> is bad.
>
> -Frank
I believe i have seem port comments (or maybe it was UPDATING)
mentioning moving things out of the data-dist directory to a
subdirectory of www, so this seems to be the preferred way to do things
and then add an alias to apache. some ports, like gallery2, still dump
to data-dist, but most seem to place themselves into www by default
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