Hi Dne Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:49:42 +0100 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> napsal(a): > I'm looking at some of the dir-or-file-in-var-www bugs reported by > Manoj. A recurrent pattern is that of packages that ship, as their > static content, a single .html file, usually a form for triggering some > CGI app. All of them reported to be buggy store that file as > /var/www/file.html. > > Reading §5.3 of the above link, I wonder whether the following solution > would be appropriate: > > - ship under /etc/apache2/conf.d/ a snippet with an Alias dir mapping > the package name to a dir containing the static content (a single html > file, usually) > - add an index.html -> file.html symlink in that dir > > For the end user, the change would be from accessing the app as > http://localhost/file.html to accessing it as http://localhost/package/. It would be indeed change for existing users, but new users will get all web applications on same expected location. So I'd rather see this as a benefit in long term. > Also, can we do anything better---still remaining FHS-compatible---than > documenting that in a NEWS.Debian entry to ease transition to the new > URL? Documenting in NEWS.Debian seems to be appropriate here. As there probably will be more such changes, some general paragraph in release notes might be also good idea. -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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