On Tue, 20 May 2003, [iso-8859-1] J?rgen H?gg wrote: > > Nooooooooooooooo. /usr/share/doc must be removable without any untoward > > effects on the operation of the system. /usr/share/<packagename> is the > > place to be, with an appropriate alias linking (probably) > > http://localhost/<packagename>/ to /usr/share/<packagename>. > > Is there a standard way of adding an alias?
Not that I've found, although one of the things on my wishlist is "have a deep and meaningful look at wwwconfig-common", which IIRC is supposed to support shenanigans like this. > Otherwise it seems as if adding the link would be web-server specific. Yup. > Unless the link is put directly in /var/www, which the policy think > is bad (or at least not good). I mean, /var/www could contain just about > anything, including something that was named '/var/www/packagename'. I've always considered /var/www to be the site admin's playground, so I leave well out of it. What I am wondering is, apart from a webapp (which can afford the overhead of scripting required to support inserting bits and bobs into webservers), what sort of packages need to put webserver-accessible pages up? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16