[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache

Thu Mar 22 21:42:23 CET 2012

20.03.2012 18:48, Guillaume Rousse kirjoitti:
+> Le 17/03/2012 03:22, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+>> Hence I suggest a single user id to be used. (I'm fine with any other
+>> solution which works as well)
+> My main concern is the fuzziness of the current situation where we have
+> - one virtual package 'webserver' corresponding to four implementations
+> (apache, lightpd, nginx, cherooke)
+> - one common base (webserver-base) only used by the two first ones
+> - all our web applications packages using 'apache' as mandatory dependency
+> 
+> If the main concern is file ownership, I'd propose for the next release
+> to have each of these servers use a distinct uid, document root and
+> index page, but use a shared 'webserver' or 'www' gid, and ensure all of
+> those applications use group-based permission, instead of user-based.
+> I'd find this setup a bit clearer.
+
+I'd rather they all use the traditional document root "/var/www/html",
+but I don't really care much as long as the webapps are usable with both
+apache and lighttpd.
+
+I'm not sure if all webapps can easily work with group-based
+permissions, but maybe they do (I don't know much about them)...
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+