Dne 4.10.2010 18:29, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) napsal(a): > 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? I'd say that httpd specific files should go to subpackages like php-httpd. It's an overhead but as you say, what if a new webserver hits the repos. Radek >> 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 > -- Radek VokÃl <rvokal@xxxxxxxxxx> Engineering Manager - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 111 Mobile: +420 608 437 507 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
