[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache

[Anssi Hannula]

15.03.2012 22:51, Guillaume Rousse kirjoitti:
> Le 08/03/2012 16:47, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
>> Le 08/03/2012 16:13, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
>>> 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.
>> Fine with me.
> Well, some days ago I pushed a 'webserver-base' package, with the
> following elements:
> - /var/www and /var/www/html directories
> - 'apache' user
> - index.html page
> 
> I've been curious, however, at the exact amount of shared elements our
> various webservers packages currently use. And actually, only two
> (apache and lighttpd) do share user and document root, the two others
> (nginx and cherookee) being totally independant.
> 
> In Fedora, they are all independant.
> 
> So I'd rather revert the change, and make lighttpd autonomous also.
> Unless someone can convince me there is an advantage having lighttpd
> executing as 'apache' :)

The web applications policy has files being owned by 'apache' user, and
I don't see how that could work if lighttpd used a different user:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Web_applications_policy

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Anssi Hannula