Re: Installing things into a system's webspace
I just uploaded the WDG HTML Validator. I put the HTML in
/usr/doc/wdg-html-validator. Policy says /usr/doc should map to the URL
/doc. And yes, /usr/lib/cgi-bin is the right place to put CGI scripts.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@braincells.com>
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> 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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> Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
> "Yes I do believe there is a violent thing inside of me" -- Everclear
>
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