[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#679340: icinga-web: .htaccess files should possibly be config files

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Am 28.06.2012 13:35, schrieb Markus Frosch:
> Both htaccess Files have been removed from the package and the
> configuration will be included in the apache2.conf.
Even much better :-D

Personally I'm a bit unsure about these apache.confs included in 
/etc/somwhere

I've already opened several bugs against icinga-cgi, where I suggested 
Alexander to move them to some /u/s/d/*/examples/ .. but I'm no longer 
sure myself whether this is exactly what I like.

The things are:
1) apache config snippets may not be used at all, e.g. because one has 
one's own configuration (e.g. with SSL or whatever) or many other 
reasons. Or one may simply use another webserver.
In these cases the files are not really (used) configuration anymore 
and shouldn't be in /etc.

2) OTOH, especially when one adapts the config from such an apache 
config file to one's own configuration (be it using Apache or another 
webserver), one probably want's to get "notified" about changes to these 
example files (e.g. when new patterns or directories are added to 
Aliases or so).
That's easy when the files are configuration (even if unused) files in 
/etc, but not when in some /u/s/d/ location.


So I don't have a "perfect" solution for that right now... have you an 
idea?

Perhaps a first good start would be to ask via debconf, whether 
webserver-xyz config should be installed and if so, place it in /etc/ 
and if not, have it only in /u/s/d/*/examples

But obviously all this is rather cosmetic and perfectionism.


Cheers,
Chris.