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

[Stuart Herbert <stuart@gentoo.org>]

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On Tuesday 05 August 2003 4:46 am, Robin H.Johnson wrote:
> Put me on the list as well, I've spent long enough writing PHP webapps
> that I know what is going on, and I'm hoping to spear-head the
> webapp-config tool once the debate it all settled.

Excellent.  Anyone else feel like hacking webapps at all?  How well covered 
are we for supporting mod_perl and mod_python based apps right now?

> Also, so that Max and you know, I have definetly been following your
> discussion about the GLEP, eclass and webapp-config, 

Good.  You've got a lot of first-hand experience that I think's important to 
ensuring that what we put in really hits the mark.

> One clarification however, multiple instances of webapps are NOT
> nessicarily across vhosts, in several cases, you may want multiple
> instances of a webapp on a single vhost or many other variants of that.
> The administrator would be telling us exactly where he wants us placed,
> and we can ask for more information as needed if we can't figure it out.

Good point.  We'd need to test each webapp to make sure that it doesn't expect 
to at a hard-coded place relative to the docroot.  Some webapps, for example, 
are hard coded to expect to be at the url http://<vhost>/, and break badly if 
they're (say) placed at http://<vhost>/people/stu/.

> Part of this could possibly also be aided by a later config tool to
> create virtual hosts. I already have one that I use for my own setup,
> but it would need quite a bit of work for Gentoo purposes.

Maybe it's off-topic, but you'll probably have an answer that I don't.  On my 
boxes, I always use Apache's dynamic vhost support.  Are there times/reasons 
when dynamic vhost support isn't the way to go?

Best regards,
Stu
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