[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache

Thu Mar 8 16:29:15 CET 2012

On 08.03.2012 15:57, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+> It helps when it works out of the box.
++1
+> 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.
+It can save hours to less experienced users (who just wonder why there 
+isn't "it works" page in Mageia).
+> 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.)?
+It will be easier to maintain just one single package and add one common 
+requirement then syncing different http services.
+> Or should that be better handled by a
+> separate unique package?
++1
+