[qmailadmin-devel] Re: What's htmldir used for?

[Robin B. <rob...@ro...>]

Tom Collins said the following on 21/12/2005 17:39:
> On Dec 21, 2005, at 5:53 AM, Robin Bowes wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone tell me what htmldir is used for?
>>
>> As in:
>>
>>   --enable-htmldir=DIR      HTTP server's base html dir.
>>
>> When I say "used", what parts of qmailadmin reference this value?
> 
> 
> I think it's only used later in the configure.in script to look for
> where to place the images.  The script combines htmldir and imageurl to
> determine where to place the images.

Thanks Tom.

I can't actually see any evidence of it being used at all.

For example, here's the configure command that I used for qmailadmin:

./configure \
 --enable-autoresponder-path=/usr/bin \
 --enable-cgibindir=/var/www/qmailadmin/cgi-bin \
 --enable-cgipath=/qmailadmin \
 --enable-domain-autofill \
 --enable-help \
 --enable-htmllibdir=/var/www/qmailadmin \
 --enable-imagedir=/var/www/qmailadmin/images \
 --enable-imageurl=/qmailadmin/images \
 --enable-maxusersperpage=12 \
 --enable-maxaliasesperpage=12 \
 --enable-modify-spam \
 --enable-spam-command="| /var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/bin/maildrop
mailfilter"

This gives me the following output as it completes:

            qmailadmin 1.2.9
            Current settings
---------------------------------------
       cgi-bin dir = /var/www/qmailadmin/cgi-bin
          html dir = /var/www/html
         image dir = /var/www/qmailadmin/images
         image URL = /qmailadmin/images
      template dir = /var/www/qmailadmin
         qmail dir = /var/qmail
      vpopmail dir = /var/vpopmail
   autorespond dir = /usr/bin
         ezmlm dir = /usr/bin
         ezmlm idx = yes
   mysql for ezmlm = yes
              help = yes
      modify quota = no
   domain autofill = yes
 modify spam check = yes
      spam command = | /var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/bin/maildrop
mailfilter

Following a make && make install-strip, nothing is put in /var/www/html.

I use the following apache config (/etc/httpd/conf.d/qmailadmin.conf):

Alias /qmailadmin/images /var/www/qmailadmin/images
ScriptAlias /qmailadmin /var/www/qmailadmin/cgi-bin/qmailadmin

This means that any domain hosted on this server has access to
qmailadmin at http://some.domain/qmailadmin

[goes and looks in configure.in]

Ah, I see that htmldir is used as a root for imagedir if it is not
specified explicitly.

So, in may case, it is not required, but it is used as a fallback
default in certain other cases.

Thanks for making me go and look and work it out. :)

R.