Bug 253905

Summary:	app-admin/webapp-config: option for arbitrary install directory (e.g. in userspaces)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Noah Sheppard <nlshep>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Anthony Basile <blueness>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	proxy-maint, web-apps, yosoy
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Noah Sheppard 2009-01-05 20:50:18 UTC

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!

Comment 1 Anthony Basile gentoo-dev

2011-12-30 17:32:43 UTC

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.