Re: [htdig-dev] Re: Feedback on configuring ht://Dig?

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Jonathan Baron:
> I removed the second and the last sentence from the following and
> submitted it as a response to my original bug report to RedHat,
> #11074.  Hope that is OK.

That's great, thanks.  Thanks for the edits too.  I really need to install
that filter in my brain.  :)

> On 06/12/03 15:29, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> >They point it to /var/www/html/htdig.  Actually, they do lots of really
> >dumb things in their RPM package.  First of all they set common_dir
> >and image_dir to the same thing, then they move /var/www/html/htdig
> >to /usr/share/htdig.  In previous RPMs, they then made a symlink from
> >/var/www/html/htdig (in the htdig-web package) over to /usr/share/htdig,
> >so that htsearch et al. only found the common files if you had installed
> >both htdig and htdig-web packages, and htsearch's images would only load
> >if you configure httpd to follow symlinks.  Now, to resolve the latter
> >problem, they use an Apache Alias instead of a symlink, so the images
> >load, but nothing will find the common files unless you fix common_dir
> >in your htdig.conf.  Maybe in another year or two they'll finally get
> >it right.
> >
> >I can send you their .spec file if you're interested.
> 
> No. Thanks.
> 
> Jon


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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)