From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 409 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Jul 2003 14:44:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 27160 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2003 14:44:35 -0000 From: Stuart Herbert Reply-To: stuart@gentoo.org To: Max Kalika , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:42:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200307231512.51710.stuart@gentoo.org> <259972390.1058945342@[192.168.23.5]> In-Reply-To: <259972390.1058945342@[192.168.23.5]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_o7pH/Znqb00BPSb"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200307231542.48550.stuart@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Poll: Where should web applications be installed? X-Archives-Salt: 70153699-7c01-43ea-92c1-f8fd2296dd69 X-Archives-Hash: 584216e5b81c4cf3ebf5f5d2cd0eb5b2 --Boundary-02=_o7pH/Znqb00BPSb Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline Hi Max, On Wednesday 23 July 2003 3:29 pm, Max Kalika wrote: > Personally, I like /usr/share/webapps. =20 That's a good suggestion ;-) > One question though. Why do all > ebuilds currently insist on making files owned by the web user (apache)? > Seems very wrong to me as the apache user is able to write to the > applications. It seems just like giving ownership to a regular user > account for other applications. Because most web apps are badly written, and rely on write access to=20 directories on the machine. Sorry - I just can't think of a polite way to= =20 put that ;-) As an interesting aside, because we run apache under the apache user (rathe= r=20 than a nobody user), it'll make the business of supporting multiple web=20 servers quite a mess. I mean, if you install tikiwiki, which user should o= wn=20 it?!? > > While I'm at it, I'm proposing that we create a new set of 'web-XXX' > > groups for holding web applications. For example, wiki engines would go > > under 'web-wiki', bulletin boards under 'web-forums', and so on. This'd > > make it much easier for users to find these packages. > > I like it! I read your post about having proposed this before, but with no real respon= se. =20 Tell you what - if no-one else sends through any feedback, I guess no-one=20 would really notice if we went ahead and just did this? ;-) Best regards, Stu =2D-=20 Stuart Herbert stuart@gentoo.o= rg Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.or= g/ Upcoming packages list http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/package= s/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint =3D 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C =2D- --Boundary-02=_o7pH/Znqb00BPSb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/Hp7oDC+AuvmvxXwRAoQzAJ9MUySmnHZVD7qkMSZNZPeMzZJelwCfXaZz vhQnU/0UzjpSCeA6jhhaIXc= =XSnZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_o7pH/Znqb00BPSb--