[Linux-disciples] Systemwide cgi-bin

[Adam Kessel]

Incidentally, I think all of this is due to the basic awkwardness of a
program that was really written to be installed on a per-user basis being
Debianized, where Debian packages are really intended for system-wide
installation.  There are a number of similar cgi-type packages with this
problem.

For myself, I just get the tarball and install it in my own cgi-bin, but
obviously then you lose the automatic upgradability.

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:24:43PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I'm trying to get blosxom (http://www.blosxom.com/) - a weblog package by
> Rael Dornfest with a truly wretched name that only a hacker could have
> devised - to work on my machine, and I'm noticing the value of using
> standard directories (a point which Adam has made for a while). I had
> been using, for instance, /var/laniels.org for one of my websites, and
> just switched it back to /var/www/laniels.org because that seemed closer
> to the standard directory that every Debian package tries to install to.
> (Actually, most of my files were in ~/public_html anyway, which I think
> is probably the safest route.)
> 
> Now I notice that blosxom expects me to be using a systemwide cgi-bin
> directory, namely /usr/lib/cgi-bin. Since I'm running multiple sites on
> my machine, any of which could have its own cgi-bin, it seems silly to
> make this a systemwide setting. But since blosxom installed to
> /usr/lib/cgi-bin, and any upgrades will go there, I decided that I'd just
> symlink /usr/lib/cgi-bin/blosxom from within laniels.org's cgi-bin
> directory (namely ~/public_html/cgi-bin). Is this a good idea? Is there a
> better approach?
> 
> Sorry if this message is confusing and directory-name-laden.
> 
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