Features/WebserverDependency

Features/WebserverDependency

Summary

Provide a way how to install and use webserver related packages (for example phpMyAdmin or Mailman) with any webserver in Fedora.

Owner

• Name: Jan Kaluza

• Email: jkaluza@redhat.com

Current status

• Targeted release: [[Releases/<number> | Fedora <number> ]]
• Last updated: (DATE)
• Percentage of completion: 0%

Detailed Description

Currently, packages like phpMyAdmin or Mailman requires httpd installed. This is wrong, because they can work properly even with Lighttpd or nginx. They need httpd for following reasons:

1. Their files have to be readable by webserver and therefore they have to have proper owner or group. Each webserver in Fedora has its own user/group under which it's running. This should be changed and one group shared by all servers should be introduced.
2. They contain configuration files just for httpd. Improved packages layout should be introduced to let admin choose if he wants to install configuration files for httpd/lighttpd or for different webserver.
3. They require mod_php, mod_wsgi or other httpd modules. These dependencies should be moved into server specific subpackage together with the server specific config files.
4. They "Requires: php". "php" as dependency is not needed, because of TODO (waiting for rcollect clarification).

Benefit to Fedora

• Ability to install various web applications without pulling httpd as a dependency if it's not needed.
• Unification of web application packaging.

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/Your_Feature_Name