webapps and /cgi-bin alias

[Elan Ruusamäe]

some of you probably know that it's is troublesome to make alias 
underneath /cgi-bin directory.

with %apache_config macros it was possible to insert slot so that 
the /cgi-bin/subdir alias is defined before global /cgi-bin alias is defined. 
but those are obsoleted by better webapps ;)

but webapps framework configs are all read after apache internal configs are 
read. so there's no way to load application's /cgi-bin alias override.

there are five ways to solve this.
1. do not use /cgi-bin alias for applications
maybe use Redirect to application address to keep some kind of compatability 
for users depending on the url.
2. do not define /cgi-bin alias globally in apache. in ideal world all cgi 
programs should have their apache config and nothing is packaged 
to /home/services/httpd/cgi-bin directory at all. and therefore that alias is 
not needed. but that httpd/cgi-bin location would be for users, ie their own 
cgi-bin applications needed to be placed somewhere too.
3. hack apache global /cgi-bin alias and make it as "webapp", thus it defines 
it's url in same way as webapps do. and somehow make it appear as last.
i don't want to change this as sort-order independant webapps looked pretty 
good already.
4. change apache config so the /cgi-bin alias is always loaded last after 
"include webapps.d/*.conf" line.
not sure if this will make config valid without cgi module present.
because there are two modules providing cgi interface: mod_cgi and mod_cgid 
and ifmodule directive might not work
5. maybe something i've been missing?

currently known packages of this kind are:
- cvsweb
- man2html-cgi

-- 
glen

-- 
glen