[pca] Serious problem with pca proxy today

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Thu Jul 31 14:14:33 CEST 2008


Hi,

> Sorry, but I did not realize that this was a problem.

Not your fault - the current behaviour really isn't what you would 
expect. I think I'll soon break backwards compatibility and make 
pca-proxy only read pca-proxy.conf in the future.

> BTW.: Is it ok to set a softlink from /usr/local/bin/pca to 
> .../cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi to get the cgi updated simply with
> pca --update now ? Until now I had to copy it manually from 
> /usr/local/bin to the cgi-bin directory after each update.

Yes, that should be fine. Make sure that your web server follows 
symlinks, this might not be the default (in apache's configuration, look 
for "FollowSymLinks").

One day I'll add auto-update for the proxy as well. It's not that 
urgent, though - I rarely change code in the proxy mode section of pca, 
so it isn't that important to have the most recent release there.

Martin.



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