[10137] in bugtraq
Re: BOA was: An issue with Apache on Debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leszek Gerwatowski)
Thu Apr 8 15:34:37 1999
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:09:45 +0200
Reply-To: Leszek Gerwatowski <bigl@CS.TG.COM.PL>
From: Leszek Gerwatowski <bigl@CS.TG.COM.PL>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19990405161805.A14807@s6n78.hfx.andara.com>; from Stephen
Gregory on Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 04:18:05PM -0300
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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