[Xapian-discuss] Re: quick-and-dirty web search for a bunch

[John Pye]

Hi James,

James Aylett wrote:

>On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:50:17PM +1000, John Pye wrote:
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>>I think that dedicated 'cgi-bin' folders are a bit unsual in these
>>days of php and python...
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>Except that it's really, really useful to have packages put things in
>cgi-bin directories, away from the main server, if you want to run CGI
>with privilege separation using something like userv.
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>Or do you mean "dedicated" as in "system-wide"?
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Yeah I sort of meant system-wide. The problem with cgi files in /var/www
is that those directories tend to contain lots of manually-managed
files, rather than /usr which contains only RPM-managed files. So it's
perhaps more natural to have the cgi files off in /usr then symlink to
them or access them via ScriptAlias. Just a thought.

>>You might want to take a look at how ViewVC handles its installation
>>of cgi scripts, perhaps.
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>It puts it in $PREFIX/bin/cgi doesn't it? That feels odd to me, but
>not too odd I guess. I'd probably prefer $PREFIX/bin/viewvc or
>something, to be honest.
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Ok, maybe bad example. My install (I don't think I used an RPM after
all) actually has it here. It's not in /var/www/, but it's not where I
thought it was either.
/usr/local/viewvc-1.0.0-rc1/bin/cgi/viewvc.cgi

BTW I got my updated xapian-omega RPM. Thanks guys!

Cheers
JP