Author: Vic Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] webserver route to another box on an internal LAN?
> Not sure if I'm missing something here... apache and its mod_* modules > are present (I assume) in most distros ( == "vendors"?) but I don't
> know of pre-built "vendor packages" that comprise the server
> configured in different ways.
Well, WBEL installs apache in a fairly sane manner - the docroot is sat at
/var/www/html, and there's even a test page to show that it's working.
Of course that doesn't give you every single bit of config you'd ever want
(how could it?) - but configuring apache then becomes a matter of editing
the main config file (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) or one of the
"subsidiary" ones (/etc/httpd/conf.d/whatever.conf). Nice, simple stuff,
without all that messing around in hyperspace...
> But I don't see how that applies to an apache config
> issue.
It's not the config - it's the "make & install" stuff you were doing. By
using vendor packages, you (probably) wouldn't have had to do any of that.
> Of course the alternative answer is "Yes ... laziness, impatience and
> hubris" B-)
Well, laziness is exactly why I'm so keen on packaging :-)
