[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache

Thu Mar 15 21:51:13 CET 2012

Le 08/03/2012 16:47, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
+> 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.
+Well, some days ago I pushed a 'webserver-base' package, with the 
+following elements:
+- /var/www and /var/www/html directories
+- 'apache' user
+- index.html page
+
+I've been curious, however, at the exact amount of shared elements our 
+various webservers packages currently use. And actually, only two 
+(apache and lighttpd) do share user and document root, the two others 
+(nginx and cherookee) being totally independant.
+
+In Fedora, they are all independant.
+
+So I'd rather revert the change, and make lighttpd autonomous also. 
+Unless someone can convince me there is an advantage having lighttpd 
+executing as 'apache' :)
+
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