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Date:      Thu, 11 May 2006 02:17:21 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        pav@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP for maintainers of web applications
Message-ID:  <44630121.6030303@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1147338576.799.9.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
References:  <1147338576.799.9.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>

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Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> it will soon become mandatory to stop installing web applications into
> Apache specific directories, like ${PREFIX}/www/data,
> ${PREFIX}/www/cgi-bin etc.

How did those directories become "apache specific," and where was that
decision and the prohibitive policy discussed and agreed to?

> All web applications should be now installed into ${PREFIX}/www/appname.

Why? What benefit does this give us, and what was the cost of doing it the
way it's been done for a long time already?

Doug

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