Re: Installing things into a system's webspace
Robert Woodcock wrote:
> 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?
Read the web policy. Section 5.4 of the policy manual.
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