On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 08:08:49PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Peter Pentchev wrote:
>
> > Look at some other packages; I believe the convention is to use
> > /usr/share/<appname>. In your case, if there is already stuff in
> > /usr/share/hoogle/ for the hoogle-data package, you might pick
> > /usr/share/hoogle/www/ or www-data/ or something like that for
> > the CGI script's resources.
>
> Sorry, I don't think I explained my self clearly enough.
>
> The problem is that the CGI generates HTML which has links
> which look like:
>
> /hoogle/hoogle.css
> /hoogle/hoogle.png
> /hoogle/hoogle.js
>
> which the web client would interpret as:
>
> http://host-cgi-was-served-from/hoogle/hoogle.css
>
> and so on. The obvious solution is to put them in /var/www/hoogle/
> but this location seems to be discouraged by the policy manual.
>
> I was wondering if there was another solution.
Yes, there is, and that's exactly what I meant :) Sorry for not
explaining this more clearly, or pointing at a specific package;
take a look at e.g. the phpmyadmin or phppgadmin packages.
(of course, I am not a Debian Developer, so the following might
not necessarily be the right way of doing things; it's just that
I've seen it done in more than one package)
Your package should place the files into /usr/share/hoogle/www/.
After that, it should either create a file in /etc/apache2/conf.d/
containing something like this (that's what phppgadmin does):
Alias /hoogle /usr/share/hoogle/www/
<Directory "/usr/share/hoogle/www">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
# Any other options your data files might need
</Directory>
...or it should instruct the user to do that for the virtual hosts
she wants it active on. It may also install a symlink in /var/www/hooogle/
pointing to /usr/share/hoogle/www/. The latter two options are what
the phpmyadmin package does; also see its README.Debian file.
G'luck,
Peter
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