As background for people who are not familiar with this situation: for a long time Ceph has used some forked copies of Apache and mod_fastcgi to power the RADOS Gateway. >From discussions with Dan Mick and Yehuda, Ceph's changes to Apache were mainly cosmetic, and it's ok to use the distro-supplied packages for Apache going forward. (There's more details regarding this in the ceph-devel thread, "Ceph's custom apache: ok to drop?" http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ceph.devel/22368) Regarding mod_fastcgi, this software's license is technically non-free, and as a result we're going to deprecate mod_fastcgi for the RADOS Gateway going forward. We are going to advise RGW users to use mod_proxy_fcgi instead. Our Ceph docs still advise users to rely on mod_fastcgi and our forked Apache. Also, this is the stack that our test framework Teuthology uses. In other words, there is going to be a lot of pieces to change in order to make this transition. The plan is to align Teuthology, and our upstream docs, and what we tell users so that they all match. In practical terms this means: 1) Publicly deprecating our mod_fastcgi and Apache forks, 2) Updating our upstream Ceph documentation to say "use mod_proxy_fcgi" instead, and give instructions for that, 3) Updating Teuthology to run tests using mod_proxy_fcgi instead of mod_fastcgi, 4) Packaging our mod_proxy_fcgi fork (https://github.com/yehudasa/mod-proxy-fcgi) for distros that are still on Apache 2.2. The relevant distros that ship Apache 2.2 are RHEL 6, Ubuntu 12.04 ("Precise"), SLES11, and Debian stable ("Wheezy", 7.7). I've started working on item #3 (https://github.com/ceph/ceph-qa-chef/pull/4), and John Wilkins is working on updating our documentation (item #2). There's the question of Unix Domain Sockets support. In Yehuda's testing with mod_proxy_fcgi, Unix Domain Sockets (UDS) provide a lot better performance in comparison to TCP sockets. Apache's UDS support shipped in Apache upstream version 2.4.9, but both RHEL and Ubuntu have versions older than this. RHEL 7 has httpd 2.4.6, and Trusty has 2.4.7. My intention is to request that the Ubuntu apache2 maintainers to backport UDS to their Trusty package, similarly to what Red Hat intends to ship in RHEL 7.1. I want to be sure that we're engaging the broader community with the changes we're intending, so please let me know your feedback. - Ken -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
