So far as I can tell, webapp-config is currently limited to installing apps into a path structure rooted at the directory defined for "vhost_root" in the webapp-config config file. Instead, I need to be able to specify a webapp to install to any arbitrary directory. Background: At my university comp sci department, we have users' web space in their userspace at ~/public_html, and the directory containing all the userspaces is nfs-mounted on our web server and used with apache's mod_userdir to serve the users' websites. I would like to be able to use webapp-config to install apps into the users' web space, e.g. "webapp-config appname 1.2.3.4 --force-dir ~username/public_html/appname". Thanks, Noah Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Read 'man webapp-config', and observe that there is no option to install to an arbitrary directory outside of the vhost directory configured in /etc/vhosts/webapp-config. Actual Results: I saw that no such option existed, and had to resort to manually copying files. Expected Results: There should be an option for an absolute directory to install to. Thanks for your work on webapp-config!
This is related to bug #224859 which requested documentation regarding this matter. I think another switch might be useful to override the vhost_root variable read from /etc/vhosts/webapp-config.