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Re: BOA was: An issue with Apache on Debian


From: bigl () CS TG COM PL (Leszek Gerwatowski)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:09:45 +0200


On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 04:18:05PM -0300, Stephen Gregory wrote:
FYI:

The Debian Boa package, a (very) lightweight web server, does this as
well. Version 0.93.16.1-1, Debian 2.2 (unstable/potato). Due to boa's
limited configurability I think the best option is to disable the
redirect. The relavent line in /etc/boa/boa.conf is

#Alias /doc /usr/doc



The maintainer will be notified via Debian bug tracking.

On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 07:53:35PM +0300, Andrei D. Caraman wrote:
The default setup of Apache (apache_1.3.3-7.deb) makes the /usr/doc
directory available to anyone as http://some.host/doc/.  The relevant
line is in the srm.conf file:

    Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/


When I notified maintainer of Debian Apache package about this issue he
answered that this alias is required in every Debian packaged web server
by Debian packaging policy and if I want to report it as a bug I should
change first the policy. But I've chosen to comment one line in srm.conf ;-)


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