[arch-general] Apache 2.4 revisited

[Daniel Micay]

On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Armin K. <krejzi at email.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've wondered why no one upgraded Apache to 2.4 after being available
> for so long. Then I stumbled upon an answer on this list where it has
> been said that 2.4 breaks too many packages [1].
>
> I've taken some time to verify what does it break, and fixed all
> packages from [extra] and [community] which had direct dependency on the
> "apache" package (mod_whatever ones).
>
> The mod_fcgid, mod_wsgi2 and mod_wsgi just need simple rebuilds against
> newer versions.
>
> PHP case was somehow strange. I had to modify some configure switches.
> Without --disable-cgi I'd get undefined references at build time and
> without --with-apsx=/usr/bin/apsx I'd get undefined references at run time.
>
> For other ones, I've found patches online and assembled them for direct
> applying in Archlinux svn (I used svn add and svn diff)
>
> In case someone is interested, patches can be found at [2]. It's free
> hosting, so it might "suck" sometimes.
>
> I've tested the packages against apache24 package from AUR. By tested, I
> mean compiled, loaded into httpd and checked that httpd doesn't fail to
> start.
>
> As a side note, apache24 uses event_mpm by default, but you might need
> to change to prefork one to use PHP module. Also, with apache 2.4 you
> can use php-fpm via mod_proxy as described at [3]
>
> As for the perl module, I had to use svn checkout of the httpd24 branch.
> Patch was getting way to big to ship in package.
>
> Regards
>
> [1]
> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-October/031777.html
> [2] http://blackprince.net63.net/apache24/
> [3] https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/PHP-FPM

I think the package in the repositories should be renamed to apache22
considering how long it has been out-of-date. If a developer or
trusted user doesn't want to maintain apache 2.4 in the repositories,
that's fine, but we shouldn't be reserving the name.