[ic] Risks of websites served from Subversion or CVS checkouts

Mike Heins mike at perusion.com
Wed Aug 20 03:57:40 UTC 2008


Quoting Jon Jensen (jon at endpoint.com):
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Peter wrote:
> 
> >> If you use Subversion or CVS on any project, I recommend you look into how
> >> your files are being served and see if there's anything being exposed.
> >
> > Just a side note, that this is bad practice anyways.
> 
> A matter of opinion, and I disagree.
> 
> > You should maintain your CVS, SVN, GIT, etc repositories separately from 
> > your running copy of IC.  It is a good idea to use the standard, perl 
> > Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install method to install your 
> > running copy of IC (as well as other programs) as this method does not 
> > copy the CVS, SVN, etc directories anyways, plus it checks certain 
> > system dependencies and sets variables, etc.
> 
> I think Perl's ExtUtils::MakeMaker (Makefile.PL) is a terrible way to roll 
> out a complex Interchange site comprised of Interchange, admin, catalog 
> ITL, custom Perl modules, HTML docroot, CSS, JavaScript, database DDL 
> ("migration") files, etc.
> 
> Version control systems have worked quite well at this for me. They also 
> provide a sane way to deal with any intentional or unintentional changes 
> made in production (such as mv_metadata.asc, page edits by administrative 
> users, shipping.asc, etc.) and provide a way to do code rollouts.

We could easily set $relpat = qr/(\.\.|\.svn|CVS)/ in Vend::File
to ignore CVS/Subversion directories.

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