Re: [libdb-develop] [ANN] LibDB 0.0.1 Released

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

>OK, that's cool then.  The README should just say "move the extracted
>libdb directory to the ____ directory" and all will be clear.  The

Sounds good.

>existing language is just ambiguous.  I also got confused on OS X
>because I have two directories on my server: a cgi-related one, and one
>called "Documents."  The libdb only goes in the former, despite the
>fact that it contains documents?

Yup, and that's standard sorta stuff for web servers: by default, they
have a "put naughty programs that run at the visitor's request here" (ie.
CGI programs) and a "put plain old HTML, text or images here" (ie. documents).

You bring up a point that the installer helps you through: documents
placed in CGI directories ARE NOT accessible from the web: the webserver
tries to execute them, instead of serve their contents. The first page
of the installer checks to see if it can access these files, and if
it can't ("can't" being determined by whether you visually ID something
as working or not), instructs you to move them into a web accessible
directory (in your case, "Documents").

The installer determines that for you, and not extra steps in a README.txt,
because there ARE circumstances where you can have a CGI script and a
document in the same directory, and they're happily served with no
problem. LibDB is being tested under this configuration, your configuration,
and one other possibility (mod_perl).

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