Re: webcalendars
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Sean R. Lynch wrote:
> I don't know about the other issues, but perhaps web applications could all
> be installed in a standard subdirectory under a "standard" htdocs location,
> i.e. packages, with the user warned not to put their own stuff there. Then
> if the user has their htdocs directory somewhere else, they could do a
> symlink to the "standard" htdocs/packages location, or if they don't want
> to use symlinks, they should probably use the htdocs hierarchy that's
> presented to them.
I think you're underestimating the power of httpd.conf. Take a look again
at my original message for some of the havoc people can play with
mod_rewrite, and that was light examples. Non-standard content handlers,
smarter mime-type guessing and all sort of things come in.
You need to carve out a URL namespace for each application, and make
sure (by having a master httpd.conf that the user must not touch (i.e.,
it's not considered a config file) which includes first the user config
file and then the Debian config files)
I haven't even started talking about Apache virtual host, which add
another layer of complication to this thing. Oh, and ports too.
And IP-based virtual hosts.
It's not an easy problem, any way you look at it.
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Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> -- 95855124
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