How to create an installable web application with config/data/bin stuff?
I'm writing a Dancer2 web application which contains configuration (config.yml, development.yml, production.yml, and-so-on.xml), application data (js, css, templates) and application binary (Perl bootstrapper, Perl tools) parts.
Usualy a web distribution is installed via extracting a ZIP file and there you have your e.g. /public
, /environments
, /lib
and /bin
. You start your web application with perl ./bin/app.pl
or similar.
What I currently think about is to actual install a Dancer2 web application like normal (linux/unix) applications would do. So /public
would end up at /usr/share/mydist/public
, /views
would be /usr/share/mydist/views
, /environments
including /config.yml
are located at /etc/mydist/environments
and /etc/mydist/config.yml
. /logs
moved to /var/log/mydist
and /lib
is system wide installed like you install a normal dist with cpan. Scripts in /bin
would "installed" to /usr/bin
Assuming I use Dist::Zilla to create dists how could I achieve this?
I remember there was a previous discussion about installing web application with CPAN but I can't find it anymore. Neither - IIRC - was the discussion concluded.