Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:16:36 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing something in cgi-bin Message-ID: <20060925191636.GB37898@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20060925183319.9ca31237.lehmann@ans-netz.de> References: <20060925183319.9ca31237.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 06:33:19PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> what is the propper way of installing something in cgi-bin? Right now we
> have:
>=20
> apache13 www/cgi-bin-dist
> apache20 www/cgi-bin-dist
> apache21 www/cgi-bin-dist
> apache22 www/apache22/cgi-bin
>=20
> Is there any generic way of referencing cgi-bin regarding to the apache
> version installed (is there any include file which provides a variable
> like ${CGIBINDIR})? Otherwise I would go with www/cgi-bin for now which
> should be a link to cgi-bin-dist except for apache22. But I wonder if
> that is the "right" solution....=20
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/using-p=
hp.html#USING-APACHE
>=20
> said nothing about that.
Installation of anything in the -dist directories (directly or
indirectly) is wrong. Also, you should avoid installing anything in a
location where it will be exposed to the outside world without a
deliberate action by the administrator (i.e. adding a ScriptAlias
directive).
-- Brooks
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