On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 04:07:30PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:43:13 -0500 > Brooks Davis <bro...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 01:33:15PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > >> I have a Perl program that I am thinking of porting to FreeBSD. The > >> program has to be installed in the 'cgi-bin'. > >> > >> I was thinking something like: > >> "$(WWWDIR}/apache${APACHE_VERSION}/cgi-bin" might be the way to > >> direct the install to the correct directory. Is there a better way? > >> I cannot find a macro that directly references the cgi-bin. > > > >We have a policy against installations that would automaticlly be on > >the network. You need to install it elsewhere (often a directory > >under WWWDIR) and tell people how to add the appropriate configuration > >directives to http.conf or to copy the file into cgi-bin in > >pkg-message. > > > The program is DADA Mail. It installs a 'mail.cgi' in the cgi-bin and > then installs the rest of its files, perl modules, etc. in a hierarchy > several layers deep in the cgi-bin directory. We are talking > about a lot of files here. Expecting the end user to properly move the > files from a temporary directory to the cgi-bin and then properly > changing the file(s) properties would seem a little extreme. However, > if that is the only way I can do it, I will investigate writing a > script that the end user could invoke to accomplish this feat. It does > seem a little over the top however. Due to the way DADA Mail is > written, the author does not believe it can be run from other than that > directory along with its associated files.
Sounds seriously broken. :) I might suggest installing in www/dada and providing a script to make appropriate symlinks along with an instruction to enable following symlinks in cgi-bin. It seems like shockingly bad design to require that it live at http://.../cgi-bin/mail.cgi, but that's certainly not uncommon. :( -- Brooks
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