(debian-policy.info)Web servers and applications

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11.5 Web servers and applications
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This section describes the locations and URLs that should be used by all
web servers and web applications in the Debian system.

  1. Cgi-bin executable files are installed in the directory

          /usr/lib/cgi-bin

     or a subdirectory of that directory, and the script

          /usr/lib/cgi-bin/.../cgi-bin-name

     should be referred to as

          http://localhost/cgi-bin/.../cgi-bin-name

  2. (Deleted)

  3. Access to images

     It is recommended that images for a package be stored in
     ‘/usr/share/images/package’ and may be referred to through an alias
     ‘/images/’ as

          http://localhost/images/package/filename

  4. Web Document Root

     Web Applications should try to avoid storing files in the Web
     Document Root.  Instead they should use the /usr/share/doc/package
     directory for documents and register the Web Application via the
     doc-base package.  If access to the web document root is
     unavoidable then use

          /var/www/html

     as the Document Root.  This might be just a symbolic link to the
     location where the system administrator has put the real document
     root.

  5. Providing httpd and/or httpd-cgi

     All web servers should provide the virtual package ‘httpd’.  If a
     web server has CGI support it should provide ‘httpd-cgi’
     additionally.

     All web applications which do not contain CGI scripts should depend
     on ‘httpd’, all those web applications which ‘do’ contain CGI
     scripts, should depend on ‘httpd-cgi’.