[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache

Thu Mar 8 16:47:10 CET 2012

Le 08/03/2012 16:13, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
+> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 14:57, Romain d'Alverny<rdalverny at gmail.com>  wrote:
+>> 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?
+>
+> I would prefer a package providing a web user and a default webroot.
+> Else we can have such shared user created in each of the packages...
+> It would be annoying to have to chown the writable directories when
+> switching between servers.
+Fine with me.
+
+Unfortunatly, it's a bit late in the release process the change the 
+'apache' user name to a more neutral 'www-user' :/
+
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