On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 10:19:13AM +0100, sean finney wrote:
> > OK on those without Alias, but how about whose that do have Alias-es? Do
> > you have a list of them and which file ship? Do you have some kind of
> > intermediate level where the maintainer can specify the Alias only once
> > and have it "compiled" to all web server configurations?
>
> nope, but i assume if there are folks who feel this itch it will get
> scratched :) this type of information would be really good to have
> in footnotes or an appendix in the webapps policy or some other best
> practices document.
OK (and thanks to Tzafrir for all detailed info on the various web
servers). Given the heterogeneity of them, and in particular the fact
that most of them do not have a .d/ directory where packages can drop
their snippet, I presume that the following procedure would be
appropriate for fixing the current dir-or-file-in-var-www issues.
- create a dir for the package static content
- in it create s index.html if needed
- ship Apache configuration as a conf.d/ snippet (with Alias)
- document in README.Debian where the static content is (so that admins
of other web servers know what needs to be done by hand)
- document in NEWS.Debian that the (apache) base URL to access the
package functionality has changed and that there is no backward
compatibility
> > you have a list of them and which file ship? Do you have some kind of
> > intermediate level where the maintainer can specify the Alias only once
> > and have it "compiled" to all web server configurations?
>
> i think that was the original intention of webapps-common, but once again i
> should point out that this project hasn't gone anywhere in a year or two,
> mostly due to lack of interest/time.
I fully understand that ... and you've my support :-) Not having extra
Debian time slots to offer on those lines, I was just trying to
understand what a random DD (i.e. me) could do to fix the current
outstanding dir-or-file-in-var-www issues according to the _present_
rules and available tools.
BTW, the documented Neil pointed us to is already a very good
achievement of webapps-common! thanks to everybody who has contributed.
Cheers.
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