On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > André Warnier wrote: >> >> Julius Thijssen wrote: >>> >>> How annoying, having to switch naming from CentOS/RHEL to Debian. >>> It causes me to work for hours changing httpd to apache2 (and back) >>> while migrating a linux server system. >>> Can't they just get along and make some uniformity between them? >>> What could EVER be useful about using two different names for one and >>> the same daemon? >>> >> Sure. >> The next step would be to ask them to all put the DocumentRoot under >> /var/www, instead of /srv/www sometimes. Then the next step would be to ask >> to agree on a structure for the config files under /etc/apache2 .. ooops >> /etc/httpd, so that one doesn't use sites-available while the other uses >> vhosts.d. >> Then we could also ask the Apache foundation to tell the Apache packagers >> for Windows to stop this nonsense of using install directory names with >> spaces, like C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/.. etc.. Whatever >> was wrong with C:/apache ? >> >> Hopeless, I'm afraid. > > Perhaps not ... if we create a standard then we request that the > distributions follow it. It's not just apache - php has exactly the same > problem and increase the number of combinations one has to deal with :( > > Of cause simply moving them back to where YOU want them is not actually a > problem, since on the whole one only has to edit the config files? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Build from source, and archive your config script. Problem solved. You're welcome. -Brian -- Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 Available from: http://keys.gnupg.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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