[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache

Anssi Hannula anssi at mageia.org
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


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