You should *build* a local xhier package which will contain your local WEB data and/or perhaps any additions you want to add to cgi-bin.
Make sure you can build an xhier package by using xh-request for the xhier package building code. (e.g. xh-request -w "adding WEB data" xhier,dev)
The convention for the xhier package name is "wwwdata-n.n_suffix", where "n.n" is usually "1.0" and "suffix" would be a word that uniquely qualifies your group or faculty (e.g. wwwdata-1.0_science), or the name of the machine running the web server.
Now, build the package: xh-mkpkg wwwdata-1.0_suffix You will need to follow instructions to config/remove the extra pieces that xh-mkpkg builds.
Now, here are some notes and/or configuration details:
Useful cgi-bin binaries (imagemap, query, post-query) can be found under the /software/www_server/servers directory.
Automatically generated statistics files are generated under /software/www_server/logs/wwwstat.
Server configuration files are found under /software/www_server/config. One would also put the imagemap config file there.
Log files are found under /software/www_server/logs.
The httpd.conf file is automatically set to run the server as userid "nobody", group "nogroup". If you change these values, you open the potential for security holes on your server. (please do not do that)
The new local xhier package should at least contain a /.software/local/wwwdata-n.n_suffix/data directory where one would hook on local data. Perhaps one would also build a /.software/local/wwwdata-n.n_suffix/data/cgi-bin directory. Thus, one could glue local cgi-bin scripts to the wwwapache_server package by: (cd /software/wwwapache_server/data/cgi-bin; ln -s /software/wwwdata-1.0_suffix/data/cgi-bin/somelocalbin somelocalbin). Thus, "somelocalbin" is now accessible as a valid cgi-bin script.
To hook your local data to the xhier package, simply do: mkdir -r /software/wwwdata-n.n_suffix/data/htdocs (cd /.software/local/wwwapache_server/data; mv htdocs htdocs.OLD; ln -s /software/wwwdata-n.n_suffix/data/htdocs htdocs)
Below URL will point to a valid statistics file boiled from the server log files starting the day after the server is installed. (A cron job must run first.)