[Dwn-trans-commit] CVS public_html/src/Writing/DWN

[CVS User joey]

Update of /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN
In directory finlandia:/home/users/joey/Projects/Web/public_html/src/Writing/DWN

Modified Files:
	dwn-2007-04.wml 
Log Message:
Contribution by Felipe: webapps

--- /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN/dwn-2007-04.wml	2007/02/12 11:38:42	1.1
+++ /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN/dwn-2007-04.wml	2007/02/13 20:40:06	1.2
@@ -5,6 +5,22 @@
 <p>Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the
 Debian community.</p>
 
+# From: "Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)" <felipe at cathedrallabs.org>
+
+<p><strong>Directory for web applications</strong>.  Paul Cager <a
+href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00608.html">wondered</a>
+what directory should be uses as the document root for a small web server he is
+packaging.  Luis Matos <a
+href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00635.html">noted</a>
+that packages like <a href="http://packages.debian.org/phpsysinfo">\
+phpsysinfo</a> uses the /usr/share/<packagename> and symbolic links to
+/var/www/<packagename> and that an even better approach would be to use web
+server alias instead of symbolic links. sean finney <a
+href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00641.html">added</a>
+that using symbolic links should be the only way to do that and pointed the
+<a href="http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/">Webapps
+Policy Manual</a> written by the Debian Webapps Team.</p>
+
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