On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 02:38:41PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi, > > I commited a new apache to [testing]. I have removed the custom configs and > index.html. Instead I just provide the upstream defaults. /home/httpd was > removed, too. Instead error pages and images for dirlistings etc. are > installed to /usr/share/httpd which seem more sane to me. > > The were many discussions about the default document root. Of course /srv/www > would be better than /home/httpd, but in the end I think it's the Arch way > not to force user to either one of those. So let the user decide where to put > their websites. > > As a result architecture-independent web packages should install > to /usr/share. Users have to symlink or set aliases to their documentroot; > whereever it is. > > For now I kept the use of the user and group "nobody" for the webserver. But > I > am not sure if that is the best way. Even apache's documentation advices us > to create dedicated users and groups. What do you think about introducing a > http user for this? (We allready have mail and ftp users for this) > > What do you think about this? If you think this will break anything, please > let me know, too. I don't really use apache that much.
Does the new package solve any of these? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9027 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9378 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/1857 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7952 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8382 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6028 Greg
