hi holger, russ, On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:36:43AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> writes: > > > currently munin ships some file(s) in /var/www/munin/ and also puts its > > generated graphs there. This location has been depracted and we, the > > munin maintainers, would like to come up with a new location for > > squeeze. take a look at http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/ , which covers most of the stuff you're asking about. > My recommendation would be for it to install its static files in > /usr/share/munin, put its generated graphs in /var/lib/munin, and provide > example configuration for common web servers such as Apache that explain > how to serve out the appropriate files. i would recommend similar, but with the modification that you use a dedicated subdirectory (i.e. /usr/share/munin/site), so that you still have /usr/share/munin for other uses as well. > I personally do not believe that serving anything from a package via the > web by default is a good goal. Certainly for my systems, any system > that's running a web server has a virtual host configuration and anything > that packages try to do to control what my web server serves out is broken > and undesireable. i'd have to disagree there. i think anything that might serve up content while unconfigured is a horrible idea (one more reason to avoid /var/www and /usr/lib/cgi-bin), but if someone installs an application that can behave sanely out of the box, i don't see why one shouldn't go out of their way to do so. sean --
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