WWW close-to-final proposal changes in response to criticism
Let's change the proposal here a bit. This will probably make Mike
much happier as well. /var/web should be treated as a fixed-location
space that is common to all web servers. You are encouraged to use it
as your server root, but _not_compelled_ to do so. However, if you do
not use it as your server root, you are _required_ to provide a link to
it from your server root and guarantee that this link will work as soon
as your server package is installed.
OK, now you can have your server root where you want it, and we can have
automaticaly-installed pages that are guaranteed accessable, and you can
remove all of the Debian stuff from your outside server by erasing a
single link, or move it around among your pages as you wish. This neatly
side-steps the moving stuff around for different servers problem. How do you
like that?
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
> I need to have an address of the form http://hostname/directory/filename
> which I dont have with your proposal. The ROM space cannot be reached.
If I understand you correctly, you are asking for URL-able names for
the _entire_ ROM space. I was attempting to avoid having to export _all_
of /usr/doc and _all_ of /usr/lib/web without giving the user any
choice in the matter. However, this is not really a problem for
/usr/doc and /usr/lib/web/webspace. So, we can move two of the three
ROM links into:
/var/web/webspace/ROM.webspace -> /usr/lib/web/webspace
/var/web/webspace/ROM.doc -> /usr/doc
That will put all of the ROM documents in the public space. However, we can't
do that for cgi-bin...
> http://host/cgi-bin -> /usr/lib/web/cgi-bin for ROM /var/web/cgibin for
> user
Now, that's a problem. I _don't_ want to export the entire ROM cgi-bin by
default for obvious security reasons. I would much rather have symlinks for
individual scripts. These symlinks may be installed by packages, but should
be individual per-script and should be treated like conffiles. If the user
decides to remove them, we should not put them back without asking permission
first.
> The index.html is the matter of the webserver and not the tools of
> which a number could be installed. They all might need some reference from
> index.html.
This is not a problem if /var/web/webspace is not your server root.
Thanks
Bruce
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