From: "Martin Kraemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:52 AM
> In the configuration file, we have:
>
> > #
> > # This should be changed to the ServerRoot/htdocs/manual/. The alias provides
> > # the manual, even if you choose to move your DocumentRoot. You may comment
> > # this out if you do not care for the documentation.
> > #
> > Alias /manual "@@ServerRoot@@/htdocs/manual"
> >
> > <Directory "@@ServerRoot@@/htdocs/manual/">
> > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>
> By doing it this way, we make it easy for end users to modify the
> DocumentRoot to separate their contents from the manual's, but we
> make it difficult if they choose to replace the contents in the
> @@ServerRoot@@/htdocs directory directly.
>
> I would propose to handle /manual quite similar to /icons as a read-only
> resource which is part of the server, not part of the documentroot.
>
> In other words, I propose to move /manual up one directoryy level,
> side by side with /icons:
> @@ServerRoot@@/htdocs/...
> @@ServerRoot@@/icons/...
> @@ServerRoot@@/manual/...
++1
> Then we really don't need to worry about overwriting the /manual
> directory during installation (we don't for /icons either, but we
> have been careful with /htdocs at least in Apache 1.3).
>
> Thanks to the Alias, no end-user-change is visible. but we get a
> much better separation.
Agreed. Make is so (even the Makefile.win change should be simple :)
