Re: WebSTD 2.1: debian in filenames and long paths to installed docs.

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
> Remove all debian occurences. We could say that all directories in
> /usr/lib/www are mapped into the root of the real tree

I'd like to stay out of the root of the web server entirely. There is
also strong opposition to having too many symbolic links.

> Move cgi-bin back into the server root that will simplify it even
> more.

Please try my virtual pathname CGI script. That should work with all
servers that follow the CGI standard to export cgi-bin/debian.
I have a C version of this that filters pathnames and executes
quickly that I wrote a while back for hams.com - I can give that you that
once you verify that the shell version works.

> Usage of /var/lib/www should be discouraged (only if documents are
> generated by some tools! otherwise other storage in /var should be used by
> the tool. Man2html uses /var/man2html for example).

The problem with this is that we want to directly serve some of these
documents, and thus for security purposes it helps to have them under
a restricted set of directory trees so that the webmaster can easily audit
exactly what is being served.

	Thanks

	Bruce

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