[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 14:57, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 15:02, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Le 08/03/2012 14:38, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
>>> And for /var/www/html
>>> This should really be a server-neutral thing (with a better name for
>>> the user, like www-data) but I never took the time to do it :(
>>
>> What is needed exactly by various web servers ? I really doubt anything else
>> as apache requires apache configuration file. And if it is just a
>> /var/www/html directory, there is no use to have a dependency for something
>> any sysadmin is able to create himself.
>
> It helps when it works out of the box. 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.
>
> 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.)? Or should that be better handled by a
> separate unique package?

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.