On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:43:55PM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote: > I'm maintainer of mail/mailgraph. The new version (1.14) contains a > mailgraph.css which must be put in the same directory of mailgraph.cgi. > The problem is, if I install .css to www/cgi-bin, with many apache's > default setting, you can not serve plain file under www/cgi-bin (it > ScriptAlias'ed). For lighttpd, it should not be a problem. > > I came up with two possible solution but neither satisfies me. > One is to install mailgraph.css under www/data/mailgraph and patch > cgi file. Another way is to install .css to EXAMPLESDIR and tell users > (you) to copy to a proper location (and may be some http configuration > changes). > > I'm looking for better solutions to this. My hope is to keep minimal > work required after installation. If there are no better ways, I probably > take the first way.
If you're asking for what other porters recommend, I would recommend going with the first method, in addition to mailing the author upstream and urge them to reconsider the methodology used, citing exactly what you did here. This isn't a "FreeBSD thing" in case they try to claim that, either. ;) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
