[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache

Thu Mar 8 15:57:46 CET 2012

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 15:02, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Le 08/03/2012 14:38, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
+>> And for /var/www/html
+>> This should really be a server-neutral thing (with a better name for
+>> the user, like www-data) but I never took the time to do it :(
+>
+> What is needed exactly by various web servers ? I really doubt anything else
+> as apache requires apache configuration file. And if it is just a
+> /var/www/html directory, there is no use to have a dependency for something
+> any sysadmin is able to create himself.
+
+It helps when it works out of the box. A user may not be aware, at
+first, that a /var/www/html has to be created + an index.html file put
+in it, to see its Web server work. It's a good default behaviour
+confirming the install succeeded and that the server works, it saves a
+few seconds to everyone trying/doing it first.
+
+Now, maybe each web server package should check if this /var/www/html
+directory exists and create it if needed (or have /var/www/apache,
+/var/www/lighttpd, etc.)? Or should that be better handled by a
+separate unique package?
+