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On Thursday 28 October 2004 2:13 pm, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> On Thursday 28 October 2004 21:34, Wendall Cada wrote: |
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> > I use a virual hosting environment, and do not want to use or enable |
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> > webapp-config. |
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> I respect your decision to choose not to use webapp-config. Is there any |
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> particular reason why you don't want to use webapp-config? |
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I concur with Wendall's decision; I don't use it because I've found that it |
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creates -more- work than manually installing web applications. See your |
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comment on self-configuring web applications. |
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In addition, some web applications will download their own source files on |
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demand and update themselves on demand, in a manner similar to Portage. |
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webapp-config would be completely unsuitable for these applications. |
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As a second addition to the above, and in response to "Web applications should |
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not be owned by the same user as the web server," some web applications |
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-should- and are -designed and required- to be owned by the web server's |
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user. |
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An example of the aforementioned web application would be one that is also |
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responsible for managing the entire file hierarchy of a website: it must be |
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able to do so without any additional file ownership work-arounds (using FTP |
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to update the website is not acceptable). |
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In these cases, additional backend configuration is necessary to protect |
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websites from unauthorized access (PHP's open_basedir, for example), however |
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this would be soley the responsibility of web host and the script. |
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webapp-config should be completely oblivious to this, as these safeguards |
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would obviously beyond the scope of the program; however, it should support |
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the functionality if it is required. |
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> At the moment, webapp-config is used whether or not you're using a virtual |
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> hosting environment. The only difference is that webapp-config isn't |
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> automatically executed if you have the 'vhosts' USE flag set. |
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If the vhost flag is not set, is there a way to alter the install location |
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from /var/www/localhost? If there isn't, why isn't there? I haven't had a |
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chance to look through all of the software resources for this program, though |
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I haven't seen anything helpful this far. |
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Anthony Gorecki |
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Ectro-Linux Foundation |
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