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diff --git a/tags/d/dir-or-file-in-var-www.tag b/tags/d/dir-or-file-in-var-www.tag new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8250fcb --- /dev/null +++ b/tags/d/dir-or-file-in-var-www.tag @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Tag: dir-or-file-in-var-www +Severity: error +Check: files/hierarchy/standard +See-Also: filesystem-hierarchy thevarhierarchy +Explanation: Debian packages should not install files under <code>/var/www</code>. + This is not one of the <code>/var</code> directories in the File Hierarchy + Standard and is under the control of the local administrator. Packages + should not assume that it is the document root for a web server; it is + very common for users to change the default document root and packages + should not assume that users will keep any particular setting. + . + Packages that want to make files available via an installed web server + should instead put instructions for the local administrator in a + README.Debian file and ideally include configuration fragments for common + web servers such as Apache. + . + As an exception, packages are permitted to create the <code>/var/www</code> + directory due to its past history as the default document root, but + should at most copy over a default file in postinst for a new install. + In this case, please add a Lintian override. |