[pca] Serious problem with pca proxy today

[Thomas Bleek]

Hello Martin,

I meant it otherwise. If /usr/local/bin/pca is a link to /var/apache2/cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi I could avoid this followsymlinks in the 
httpd config.

I will try it myself after arriving of the next release of pca.

Thanks again,
thomas

Martin Paul wrote:
> 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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