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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:23:57 -0500
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk>
Cc:        Christer Gundersen <dtun3z@online.no>, ache@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: apache13-1.3.26
Message-ID:  <20020619192357.GC74634@leviathan.inethouston.net>
In-Reply-To: <200206192221.52433@zappa.athame.co.uk>
References:  <1024514033.6713.6.camel@carebears.net> <200206192221.52433@zappa.athame.co.uk>

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> > When Apache is upgraded(when it needs a new rebuid), the install will
> > delete the contens in /usr/local/www* , this is _very_ bad if you
> > have a lot of info here.
> >
> > What about a solution here? (I`m not a developer, so i cant help.
> > sorry)
> 
> You can prevent the data and cgi-bin directories being wiped out by 
> breaking the symlinks to the *-default directories, then creating data 
> and cgi-bin as proper directories.
> 
> IMO, the port sucks in this respect (having lost a months worth of work 
> in the past because of it)
> 
> Just create the dirs instead of symlinks, and all should be fine at the 
> next portupgrade.
> 
Or you could store your web pages somewhere else and specify that 
location in httpd.conf


-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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