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<H1>[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache</H1>
<B>Pascal Terjan</B>
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<I>Thu Mar 8 16:13:03 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 14:57, Romain d'Alverny <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">rdalverny at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
><i> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 15:02, Guillaume Rousse <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">guillomovitch at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> Le 08/03/2012 14:38, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
</I>>>><i> And for /var/www/html
</I>>>><i> This should really be a server-neutral thing (with a better name for
</I>>>><i> the user, like www-data) but I never took the time to do it :(
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</I>>><i> What is needed exactly by various web servers ? I really doubt anything else
</I>>><i> as apache requires apache configuration file. And if it is just a
</I>>><i> /var/www/html directory, there is no use to have a dependency for something
</I>>><i> any sysadmin is able to create himself.
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</I>><i> It helps when it works out of the box. A user may not be aware, at
</I>><i> first, that a /var/www/html has to be created + an index.html file put
</I>><i> in it, to see its Web server work. It's a good default behaviour
</I>><i> confirming the install succeeded and that the server works, it saves a
</I>><i> few seconds to everyone trying/doing it first.
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</I>><i> Now, maybe each web server package should check if this /var/www/html
</I>><i> directory exists and create it if needed (or have /var/www/apache,
</I>><i> /var/www/lighttpd, etc.)? Or should that be better handled by a
</I>><i> separate unique package?
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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.
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