On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 00:29 -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > The basic question, though, remains. Although there are a bunch of > ways > to pull this off, what I'm trying to determine is which is the least > intrusive to the admin and what are admins expecting to see these > days. > Is an admin more likely to tolerate modifying httpd.conf in order to > get > a cleaner application install, or are they more apt to prefer the > application files getting scattered around if it means they can avoid > changing httpd.conf?
A thoughtful question. I do systems engineering work, so while I am not working w/ Apache *all* the time I've installed a number of third party web based apps written in perl, php and python and written a few myself. Generally speaking, just give me a *flexible* installation and excellent documentation. I will happily tweak both httpd.conf and the app's config file if I can install it in a way that fits my site layout. Also, you might check out how a few other popular projects handle their installs to see what the "norm" is these days. Here are a few. app config ---------- Check out Sixapart's Moveable Type install. It is OO-perl CGI and has been installed on what seems a ginormous amount of machines so it can't be too bad. Browser Based ------------- MediaWiki :: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/ -- php + mysql app. very smooth install. Wordpress :: http://wordpress.org/ -- php + mysql app. good enough install. httpd.conf ---------- Trac :: http://www.edgewall.com/trac/ -- python app. install/admin script + httpd.conf. This is a little strange, but I'm still wrapping my head around python so I don't know if this is what the pythonistas prefer... --Larry _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
