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

[Alexander Wirt]

Christoph Anton Mitterer schrieb am Donnerstag, den 28. Juni 2012:

> 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.
wheezy+1 will have a mechanism like a2ensite for configs, until then I
(we) don't plan to change anything.

Alex
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