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

[James Aylett]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:57:47AM +1000, John Pye wrote:

> >>I think that dedicated 'cgi-bin' folders are a bit unsual in these
> >>days of php and python...
>
> 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.

Perhaps. I'm of the opinion that putting websites in /var/www is
completely wrong anyway. In what way is the (reasonably permanent)
HTTP content of your sites /var-like data? :)

J

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