Installing things into a system's webspace
Hello, I'm considering packaging w3-validator, the W3 Consortium's HTML
validator. It's a CGI script.
It needs some images to be accessible in a known place in the system's
public html space (f.e. http://foo.bar.org/w3-validator/vh40.gif).
The package will technically work without these images in a known location,
however the resulting pages it generates will look pretty hosed with all the
broken images.
Is there a way to handle this automagically? Should I just put a message in
the postinst saying they'll need to add an Alias command to the web server's
srm.conf? (or make a symlink)
Also is it safe to have dpkg plant scripts in /usr/lib/cgi-bin? Is that
location guaranteed to work?
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