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Re: Web applications



On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:02:10PM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:57:31PM +0200, Isaac Clerencia wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 August 2004 14:48, Kai Hendry wrote:
> > > Urgh, questions. The user has to tell what apache they're using!? Are
> > > you running apache, apache2, or apache-ssl? This sort of question must
> > > be avoided.
> > How can that question be avoided? You can have several of that apache's 
> > installed. Choose a random one? :P
> 
> It would be great if whatever was at the filesystem location:
> /web/mywebapp.example.com

And the first package that goes over whatever I've got installed at
/web/mywebapp.example.com, unless there's FHS approval for it, gets a HEOE.

> Just got served from http://mywebapp.example.com

But I want my shiny new webapp to be at example.com/mywebapp -- no, wait,
make that vhost12.com/preproduction/mywebapp.

> Btw I found nothing in the fhs about web stuff.

You need to look harder.  /srv is The Way Of The Future, apparently.

> Web apps should not be dependent on apache, but just httpd.

Riiiight.  Is there any requirement for a package providing httpd to even
*have* CGI capabilities?  Once you give a complete API for managing the
configuration of every httpd-providing package in the archive, let me know.

- Matt

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