Bug#798430: apache2: please add systemd service file
This is not that easy because of all the logic that we have in the
init script.
One part is about starting/stopping htcacheclean if mod_cache_disk is
enabled. Maybe instead of doing this check at apache2 startup, this
could be split into a separate service and a2enmod could active the
htcacheclean service when mod_cache_disk is enabled.
Another part is that apache2 is not very good at telling its status
via an exit code. For example, when doing reload/stop/graceful-stop,
the controlling apache2 process will only send a signal and not wait
for the result of the operation. I don't know enough about systemd to
tell if this can be easily done via unit files.
Also, some configuration is done via /etc/apache2/envvars and
/etc/default/apache2 . This would need to be taken care of, too.
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