[Mageia-dev] changing apache configuration handling

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op donderdag 15 september 2011 00:34:39 schreef Renaud MICHEL:
> Hello
> 
> On mercredi 14 septembre 2011 at 10:06, Guillaume Rousse wrote :
> > So, we have the following choice:
> > - change current behaviour, by keeping conditionals in configuration
> > file. To use php, you have to install mod_php, and add -DHAVE_PHP5 in
> > /etc/sysconfig/httpd. This means additional configuration is required,
> > but also possibility to temporary disable without uninstalling.
> > 
> > - keep current behaviour, by removing conditionals in configuration
> > file. This means no additional configuration needed, but also than
> > installing implies usage.
> 
> How about the way it works on debian?
> 
> Their apache2.2-common package, which contains all the base configuration
> files, has a mods-available and a mods-enabled dirs in the apache conf dir
> (/etc/apache2 for debian).
> Modules load command and specific configuration (if needed) are provided as
> *.load and *.conf files in the mods-available dir, then the a2enmod command
> is used to enable (and its counterpart e2dismod disables them) some mods by
> creating symlink in the mods-enabled dir.
> The main apache2.conf file then has
> Include mods-enabled/*.load
> Include mods-enabled/*.conf
> to load the actually enabled mods.
> a2enmod also knows about modules dependencies via special comments in the
> *.load files.
> 
> Then there is a similar mechanism for sites installed by packages with
> sites-available and sites-enabled directories and a2ensite a2dissite
> commands.
> 
> see
> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/apache2.2-common
> http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=A2ENMOD
> http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=A2ENSITE

personally i prefer debian-style layout (it's even easy to change this as it's 
a configure flag).

I would be all for moving to that kind of layout