Re: solution of sorts and no upload soon (was: Re: apache2: clearing the air [please read])

[Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net>]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:34:21PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> (you didn't set your own mail-followup-to correctly again, so I'll
> manually cc you)

Thanks a lot! :)
The reason I ripped it out after my first few posts was that I
subscribed.

> Previously Daniel Stone wrote:
> > /var/web or such? But then again, doing that would still break policy.
> > An amendment still needs to be made.
> 
> I'm still not convinced an amendment needs to be made. I'm in favour
> of a very simple approach:
> 
> * setup a default vhost with the exact setup as Debian policy currently
>   describes.
> * on install ask the admin where other vhosts should be created 
>   (which would be /vhost for me, /org for debian, etc.)
> * when the admin uses some magic tool to create a new vhost simply setup
>   a directory structure ($VHOSTROOT/{www,cgi-bin,log,etc} for example) and
>   use that.
> * Iff the default vhost has to be in that directory as well setup some
>   symlinks there.
> 
> That would give you the flexibility of making it easy to create vhosts,
> does not violate the FHS or Debian policy (at least not in the package
> itself :) and does not require you to wait for a consensus on what
> the best place for these files should be (that will never happen) or
> a policy update (policy is frozen now).

This gets a +(1/2) from me - what does everyone else think? (Thom?).

-d

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