[Mageia-dev] Proofreading web applications policy

Tue Jan 18 19:07:00 CET 2011

Hello there,
+
+I started to have a look at the webapps policy.
+
+There’s something that has been bugging me for a while, that’s the
+apache-centric way of thinking of this policy.
+
+To me, there are valuable alternatives to apache that deserve to be
+treated equally.
+Here are the packages that provides webserver
+
+apache-ssl|apache-mpm-event|apache-mpm-peruser|nginx|lighttpd|
+cherokee|apache-mpm-itk|apache-mpm-worker|thttpd|apache-mpm-rsbac|
+apache-mpm-prefork|boa
+
+“These are the files that are susceptible to change during the
+application's lifetime. They go in /var/lib/foo. If they are supposed to
+be editable by the application directly from the web interface, they
+should be owned by apache user and apache group.”
+
+Could we create a generic group (webserver for instance) to allow
+webapps to play nice with these webserver ?
+
+Same goes for logfiles and config files containing sensitive
+informations.
+
+I would also be in favor of creating subpackages for webapps that
+provides better integration with apache such as files in
+/etc/httpd/conf/webapps.d/.
+
+That way, webapps should have a Requires on webserver, and the
+subpackage should have one on apache.
+
+Another issue is the owner of /var/www. This directory is owned by
+apache-conf. Could we instead make a generic package called
+webserver-data for instance that would provide it ? This way each
+package providing webserver would have to require webserver-data.
+
+Finally, that may be a little cosmetic detail, but I would prefer
+template files for apache to be in a separate file in SOURCES/ that’s
+included instead of creating it in the spec like:
+cat > %{buildroot}%{_webappconfdir}/%{name}.conf <<EOF
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