Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 17:36:39 +0100 From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org> To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en Makefile Message-ID: <20010303173639.B25057@matrix.42.org> In-Reply-To: <20010228233653.A1692@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:36:53PM %2B0000 References: <200102241031.f1OAVTZ82598@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010225064044.A68105@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010227122027.A2079@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> <20010227121401.A2631@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010228224508.A2745@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> <20010228233653.A1692@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:36:53PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:45:08PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> > Symlinks on a web server are evil. It hurt. Don't do that! Period!!!
>
> References? Granted, it's been about 18 months since I was doing web
> work professionally, but that's not a view I've heard expoused with such
> vehemence. It's true that depending on the server configuration you
> might incur an extra lstat(2) call, but that's about it.
>
> If it's a huge problem, we can always make .../{FAQ, handbook, tutorials}
> be real directories, and then populate them with hardlinks instead.
>
> Either way, the content is only on the disk once, rather than in multiple
> places.
Symlinks _are_ evil. The alternate paths will (eventually) get linked
somewhere. This will induce more load by the Webspiders which find
everthing twice. These alternate locations will pollute the caches, too.
The pages will show up in duplicate. And last of all, you can't tell its
a symlink which means this breaks down when mirroring via wget/webcopy.
In the worst case even the mirrors will have all the pages twice and
thrice.
I'd strongly advise against using a single symlink on a webserver. You
really don't want to do this.
If you really must do it, put rules in the webserver config to disallow
acces to all the alternate paths except one.
CU,
Sec
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"The best way to get correct information out
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