`<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Eric Sproul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esproul@omniti.com" target="_blank">esproul@omniti.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> For example, apache in ms still needs a lot of configuration before you can get it up and serving pages.<br>
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</div>It's pretty difficult to ship a config that works for everyone. ;)<br>
Apache is a complex app. If you just want to serve some static files,<br>
there are easier ways (like lighttpd!) If your needs are more complex,<br>
more knowledge will be required to configure things appropriately.<br>
That's natural. Also note that <a href="http://ms.omniti.com" target="_blank">ms.omniti.com</a>'s Apache features DTrace<br>
integration that isn't available in mainline Apache 2.2. :)<br></blockquote><div><br>As an example, the <a href="http://ms.omniti.com">ms.omniti.com</a> apache has all of its directories configured to /www/... as the starting point, with a whole bunch of subdirectories off that, none of which are created in the install package, and none of which are documented in any guide on 'what to do next to get up and running' - so you have to go through the config file itself and figure out what it's expecting, examine the logs to find out why it isn't starting up, etc... It also expects depends on other packages that aren't available / installed (like the logrotate stuff) that you have to comment out before it will start ... the service isn't installed automatically, so you also have to find the xml file and import that into SMF manually.<br>
<br>Similar story with MySQL from <a href="http://ms.omniti.com">ms.omniti.com</a> as well... <br><br>Not a massive criticism, it forces me to learn how it all fits together and why it doesn't "just work" ... but also, it doesn't "just work" ...<br>
</div></div><br>For me, a basic functional configuration out of the box would be fine ...<br><br>What would be nice is a simple way to get the basic webserving components installed and functional without too much effort - i.e. Apache / PHP / MySQL. Or even a howto guide ...<br>
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