[arch-dev-public] Uniform handling of webservers

[Aaron Griffin]

Moving this discussion off of the private list, mainly because it
wasn't resolved - I think Tobais' points here should be addressed.

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From: tobias at justdreams.de <tobias at justdreams.de>
Date: Mar 25, 2007 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [arch-dev] Uniform handling of webservers
To: Development Discussion for Arch Linux <arch-dev at archlinux.org>


> Since this discussion kinda went away... I'm gonna bring it back up
> (hooray gmail stars keeping me on task!).

Hi,

   most people agree on /srv/www , but we have different opinions on
how we wanna lay out the basic structure. Let's try to summary the ideas
and concerns. I use apache and lighttpd to illustrate the issues:

1. shall we continuing using nobody as primary www user(group) or now
   when we unify things go and create a dedicated wwwuser with a
   reasonable set of permissions?
2. shall we create subdirs /srv/www/{httpd,lighttpd} per webserver as
   some people suggested? Web administration is an administrators job -
   not a package managers.
3. If we create subdirs, shall we have some magic that routes localhost
   automatically $wwwhome of the latest installed webserver? Do we wanna
   have magic at all?
4. Subdirs per webserver leave us with the issue, that we do not have a
   distinct directory, where we can install apps like phpMyAdmin per
   default to work out of the box. This is bad IMHO. The issue can be
   partially resolved by aliases or vhosts, but this requires both user
   interaction and some config tweaking, as lighttpd does not support easy
   *.conf handling with the vhost handling as apache does. There might be
   a way, but I have to investigate that. Also, this might mean that we will
   have to create special handlings per possibly installed webserver in the
   phpmyadmin.install post_insall(), I would like to get away without
   it!

        -T