[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache

Sat Mar 17 03:22:24 CET 2012

16.03.2012 19:47, Juergen Harms kirjoitti:
+> On 03/16/2012 01:00 PM, Malo wrote:
+>> It's better for now
+>> to say that web apps are packaged for apache, and maybe, in the wiki,
+>> people can
+>> write how to adapt to other web servers.
+> 
+> Maybe the approach used for the backuppc package is a good compromise:
+> The package contains and installs the apache server definition. But the
+> package also contains a README.MGA file that - among other items -
+> contains a recommendation on how to create a backuppc server for lighttpd.
+> 
+> This approach is perfectly in line with the "packaged-for-apache"
+> concept, and it makes life easy for users who - for whatever reason -
+> need to run lighttpd. The mageia wiki is great, and there is interest to
+> push people to go to the wiki. But a README file that comes with the
+> package is the first place where a user will look for this kind of
+> information; and it is more likely to get updated with a new release of
+> backuppc than a - separate - page in the wiki.
+
+This doesn't work for webapps that need server-writable
+directories/files that are owned by the server user, since any changes
+to the ownerships the user makes would be overridden on upgrade.
+
+Hence I suggest a single user id to be used. (I'm fine with any other
+solution which works as well)
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+