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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Oct 11, David Kowis [dkowis AT shlrm.org] wrote:
> Jason Flatt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 12:30, David Kowis wrote:
> >> I'm going to concur with this. We should stick to the default 
> >> DocumentRoot.
> >> It's a system administration task to ensure that your installed web
> >> applications are accessible by apache. Having spells put things there is
> >> okay as well, however switching to a /usr/share/$(SPELL)/www might make
> >> more sense from the spell management perspective, as all the things 
> >> related
> >> to that spell are in the same location. The files meant to be accessible
> >> from the Internet are separated well enough to make it work out of the 
> >> box
> >> with minor adjustments to apache.
> >>
> >> David
> > 
> > Umm, what would be the point of adding a www after /usr/share/$(SPELL)?  
> > That 
> > would just put the files one level deeper w/o any real need.  They would 
> > already be separated based on the spell's name.
> > 
> Well currently, if a spell has files they go in
> /usr/share/${SPELL}/[doc|info|whatever]
> and the www files go in /usr/share/www/${SPELL}
> 
> For the point of organization, it'd be better for all the spell's files to 
> be
> installed under /usr/share/${SPELL}

I'd really rather we just went back to this and tossed install_www_files.
It doesn't strike me as particular standard what we do now and I don't see
web app spells as something special that need their own standard vs the
regular /usr/share/$SPELL that other similar stuff uses.

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