From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 28 23:44:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A28A106564A for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:44:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [69.66.77.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C4098FC08 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:44:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2SNgpDO074211 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:42:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n2SNgomo074210 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:42:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:42:50 -0500 From: Brooks Davis To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090328234250.GE71365@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20090328133315.3d7f9027@scorpio> <20090328174313.GD71365@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20090328160730.1f7a8ff0@scorpio> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5oH/S/bF6lOfqCQb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090328160730.1f7a8ff0@scorpio> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:42:51 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Installing in cgi-bin 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: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:44:06 -0000 --5oH/S/bF6lOfqCQb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 04:07:30PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:43:13 -0500 > Brooks Davis wrote: >=20 > >On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 01:33:15PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > >> I have a Perl program that I am thinking of porting to FreeBSD. The > >> program has to be installed in the 'cgi-bin'.=20 > >>=20 > >> I was thinking something like: > >> "$(WWWDIR}/apache${APACHE_VERSION}/cgi-bin" might be the way to > >> direct the install to the correct directory. Is there a better way? > >> I cannot find a macro that directly references the cgi-bin. > > > >We have a policy against installations that would automaticlly be on > >the network. You need to install it elsewhere (often a directory > >under WWWDIR) and tell people how to add the appropriate configuration > >directives to http.conf or to copy the file into cgi-bin in > >pkg-message. >=20 >=20 > The program is DADA Mail. It installs a 'mail.cgi' in the cgi-bin and > then installs the rest of its files, perl modules, etc. in a hierarchy > several layers deep in the cgi-bin directory. We are talking > about a lot of files here. Expecting the end user to properly move the > files from a temporary directory to the cgi-bin and then properly > changing the file(s) properties would seem a little extreme. However, > if that is the only way I can do it, I will investigate writing a > script that the end user could invoke to accomplish this feat. It does > seem a little over the top however. Due to the way DADA Mail is > written, the author does not believe it can be run from other than that > directory along with its associated files. Sounds seriously broken. :) I might suggest installing in www/dada and providing a script to make appropriate symlinks along with an instruction to enable following symlinks in cgi-bin. It seems like shockingly bad design to require that it live at http://.../cgi-bin/mail.cgi, but that's certainly not uncommon. :( -- Brooks --5oH/S/bF6lOfqCQb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFJzrX6XY6L6fI4GtQRArgbAJ9nbCwEiC5V0sv3F4JK4Ss388GI/wCfcpZp KijPA7Zlp96EoCKTq9OQk80= =Jp8l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5oH/S/bF6lOfqCQb--