Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Web Application Installation

[Stuart Herbert]

Hi Cal!

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 12:43 am, Cal Evans wrote:
> Max & Stuart,
>
> Personally, As someone who runs both types of servers, I would prefer a
> separate behavior.
>
> My server here at the house hosts 1 domain and I like the default way
> gentoo handles that. It's easy for me to test things out etc.  But on my
> production servers, I like the idea of being able to set +vhosts and have
> it work as described.

Yeah.  I think we can make -vhosts be the equivalent of what we have today, 
and +vhosts do the whole virtual server thing.  I'm willing to code it up and 
trial it, to see how well it works in practice.

Which leads me onto another TonyTangent(tm).  Once we have something 
implemented, I don't think it should go into Portage straight away.  I think 
we should recruit a small team of knowledgable testers, and roll it out to 
them first for a whole cycle or two of release/test/scratch head/try again.  
It'll take a bit longer, sure, but it'll mean that what goes into Portage and 
into general use will already be bedded in.

Btw, talked to Woodchip on IRC tonight, and he seemed happy enough with us 
moving the default -vhosts DocRoot from /home/httpd.  So I'm gonna strongly 
advocate that the default -vhosts DocRoot moves to 
/var/www/localhost/public_html in the near future.

> Just chiming in on a very interesting thread.

Glad you have.  The more feedback we can get, the better the final solution 
will be.  I'd hate us to implement something that we devs found acceptable, 
but no-one else wanted to use ;-)

Best regards,
Stu
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