[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache

Kamil Rytarowski n54 at gmx.com
Thu Mar 8 16:29:15 CET 2012


On 08.03.2012 15:57, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
> It helps when it works out of the box.
+1
> 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.
It can save hours to less experienced users (who just wonder why there 
isn't "it works" page in Mageia).
> 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.)?
It will be easier to maintain just one single package and add one common 
requirement then syncing different http services.
> Or should that be better handled by a
> separate unique package?
+1


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