04.10.2010 14:49, Jan Kaluza wrote: > Hi, > > there are over 100 packages which "Require: httpd" and it looks they are > preconfigured only for httpd. However, Fedora contains more webservers than > apache (httpd) and it's currently impossible (as far as I know) to install for > example php (phpMyAdmin, wordpress, ...) if you want to use lighttpd instead > of httpd, because "yum install php" installs also httpd. You then have to > disable httpd by "chkconfig httpd off", but there's no way to have PHP installed > without httpd. > > I think one solution is to use "webserver" virtual package instead of > "Require: httpd". Of course it's OK to use "Require: httpd" in packages which > really needs httpd and can't work with another webserver, but otherwise I > think "webserver" virtual package should be used. > It was discussed not so long in past. I agree absolutely. But there also present small problem - many packages includes Apache virtual hosts configuration, .htaccess settings and some similar stuff targeted only for Apache. In most cases it is not so hard to implement similar settings for example for Ngnix and Lighthttpd... But, do we have rights require such implementation for all present webservers from package maintainer? In any case it additional work and requires additional skills. What if new webserver will appear in repos? > Another problem is that each webserver in Fedora uses different username/group. > If you have application which stores some private data which should be > accessible for that application and for webserver, but not for another users, > you have to use something like "chown your_app_username:webserver_group > private_directory". This is not doable when webserver group is different for > each webserver, so you have to support *just* one webserver in .spec file or > loose the security. Can't we use single username/group for all webserver? > > Regards, > Jan Kaluza -- With best wishes, Pavel Alexeev aka Pahan-Hubbitus. For fast contact with me you could use Jabber: Hubbitus@xxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
