Re: ALPHA release of apache-1.0.0-1 now available

1995-12-20 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED], in a magnificent manifestation of deity, wrote: 'Michael Alan Dorman wrote:' On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Chris Fearnley wrote: This is a preliminary release. It seems to work, but I'm disatisfied with my handling of httpd configuration (basically there is none - you

Re: ALPHA release of apache-1.0.0-1 now available

1995-12-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Michael Alan Dorman wrote:' On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Chris Fearnley wrote: This is a preliminary release. It seems to work, but I'm disatisfied with my handling of httpd configuration (basically there is none - you have to edit /etc/httpd/* by hand). Hmm. That's what kept me from releasing

Re: ALPHA release of apache-1.0.0-1 now available

1995-12-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Chris Fearnley wrote: * Should we create a new user and/or group to control access to the hierarchy of html files? If so, why don't we make it official and get Bruce to include in the base /etc/group and /etc/passwd files. User nobody and group nogroup is either already

Re: ALPHA release of apache-1.0.0-1 now available

1995-12-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Michael Alan Dorman wrote:' /usr/lib/apache is my choice for serverroot. Where the documents go is site-specific. I'd like to also include an option to chroot httpd to /usr/local/http or somesuch. Can dpkg install a package under some arbitrary directory? If so then the preinst script

Re: ALPHA release of apache-1.0.0-1 now available

1995-12-18 Thread Raul Miller
apache-httpd provides httpd (as does cern-httpd) so dpkg won't install one until the other is removed. This isn't completely optimal (for the people who want to use apache but also need a proxy server). Ideally, someone should write up a mini-howto on how to work around this simplicity