Why can this not be made part of the installation process ?
I mean if Cherokee fails to run unless the required changes are made then why
not simply make this automatic ?!?
Or what am I missing here ?
Ray C. Horn
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> Subject: Re: [Cherokee] Cannot start Cherokee 0.99.23
> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:54:23 +0200
>
> On 29-ago-09, at 18:32, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> > Alvaro Lopez Ortega dijo [Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 06:27:19PM +0200]:
> >>> So how do I fix this and why was the fix not made automatic ?
> >>
> >> Change whatever rule to set to use "Generic Balancer" to use "HTTP
> >> Reverse Proxy".
> >>
> >> It was not upgraded automatically because it's an important change
> >> you
> >> should aware of. The reverse proxy is much better than the deprecated
> >> 'Generic Balancer'. However, since it also allows to perform new
> >> operations, I encourage you to check its configuration and ensure
> >> that
> >> it's set up according to your needs.
> >
> > Can you please spell out a recipee on how this could be done?
>
> From Cherokee-admin it'd only require to check the behavior rules and
> reconfigure all the rule using 'Generic Balancer' to 'HTTP Reverse
> Proxy' and check its configuration parameters. After that, save the
> configuration.
>
> > I understand you want to encourage users to be aware of features and
> > prefered habits, but distributions will try to make things transparent
> > - A user might not even care about which webserver he is running, he
> > should only care that it runs fine!
>
>
> Cherokee did not use the "Generic Balancer" module in the default
> configuration. If the module is in use, it's because the user added
> explicitly a rule.
>
> In my understanding, 'Generic Balancer' is a specialized enough module
> to let the user make the change by hand. I mean, I bet that someone
> who configured a generic TCP connection balancer in his web server
> will like to know about its deprecation and replacement module.
> Besides, the bast majority of the users will not realized of the
> change just because they don't use the module.
>
> I don't know what the best upgrading strategy for Debian is. I guess
> that if " = mirror$" were matched in the configuration file, the user
> would be warned at the end of the installation.
>
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