Bug 13044

Summary: FHS breaks current server during upgrade.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Henri Schlereth <henris>
Component: apacheAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Description Henri Schlereth 2000-06-26 10:50:02 UTC 
Upgrading apache puts cgi-bin,html and icons in its new home in
/var/www, however the httpd.conf still points to /home/httpd which
has its index.html wiped out and manual directory cleared out but
not removed. Likely because I had piranha in there as well. At a 
production level machine that would knock out the web server by removing
the index.html and any custom directories such as piranha, htdig and so
on.

I have no objections to moving but I know for a fact that if you have
mod_frontpage installed this would cause chaos for FP98 clients and
server extensions, poor feeble minded programs that they are with all
their _vti stuff.

At this point, wouldnt it be better to leave and index.html in there
telling people that they need to relocate their non-default nifty
customized web page to var/www or do some sort of blanket move of the
contents with a re-direct (equally a stop gap).

This would work with a out of box install once the httpd.conf is fixed
but I can hear the howls on a upgrade.
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-07-03 08:10:05 UTC 
The package's %post now only changes the document root, which should alleviate
part of the problem.  There's not much we can do about existing data, though.
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-07-10 19:09:37 UTC 
It's not possible to migrate things correctly given that the /home/httpd/html
tree may
be too large to fit into /var (or vice-versa), so no modifications will be made
to httpd.conf
on upgrades.  The old configuration file will be saved and can be reused if the
icons
and manuals are copied from the new location to their old locations.