On lördagen den 21 september 2002 05.43 Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > Yes that would be cool if you came visiting. > > Or you could come to Montreal ;-)
I can't afford the trip yet, still unemployed you know. > > > It *is* serious. Many e-commerce sites use some perl modules heavily, > > > and if they don't work, they can't upgrade. > > > > I understand. BTW. I packed osCommerce in contribs and it seems to work > > nicely with apache2 and php. > > Yes, I have seen it, but haven't had the time to test it yet. > > > Well, it's quite impressive. We have done a great job! > > > > Now I'm off packaging every cool php I can find. I just fixed a whole > > bunch of the ones in contribs, the admin like ones I mean. I made is so > > that apps like "phpMyAdmin" resides in a common "webadminroot" like > > "/var/www/admin/phpMyAdmin" or whatever you pass with the magic > > --relocate rpm flag, real cute. So maybe we could have a simple admin > > html page in there soon if some artistic person is up to it? > > Why don't we put the admin page in /addon-modules, with the rest of the > documentation? Well..., no. Here's what I had in mind, a sort of framework. A bash/c/c++/perl/php coder makes a package that installs all admin like php/perl packages in a unique location for each node. This is possible now since I fixed it so one could install for example phpMyAdmin like this: rpm -Uvh --relocate /var/www/html/admin=/var/www/html/_new_unique_url_ \ phpMyAdmin-2.3.0-2mdk.noarch.rpm The "_new_unique_url_" could be generated by random. The "admin installer" needs to keep track of this "_new_unique_url_" and update the start page in that location to include installed admin like packages. The main admin page should maybe look and feel like the start page for MNF?. The admin installer should make a link on the desktop and/or in the menues. etc., etc. Secondary the admin installer should/would: * don't log requests to this url. * be as stealthy as possible. * etc., etc. What is this all good for, what is the point? This method will prevent hammering with htpasswd like password crackers against known locations. Well..., this is what I had in mind when I started one year ago with "nisca" :) I like these web based gadgets :) Chears. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson Deserve-IT Networks -> http://d-srv.com
