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Re: subdirectories in /usr/lib/cgi-bin? (and html-pages)



On Tue, 20 May 2003, [iso-8859-1] Jörgen Hägg wrote:

> Another question is where to put html-pages that the package uses.
> (Not documentation)
> 
> /var/www seems to be a bad place, the only reasonable
> is /usr/share/doc/package-name/xyz.html or
> /usr/share/doc/package-name/html/xyz.html and refer to them
> with /doc/package-name/whatever.
> 
> Is that acceptable or is there a better place for them?

Nooooooooooooooo.  /usr/share/doc must be removable without any untoward
effects on the operation of the system.  /usr/share/<packagename> is the
place to be, with an appropriate alias linking (probably)
http://localhost/<packagename>/ to /usr/share/<packagename>.


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