Re: Web applications
I wrote a webapp policy proposal a few years ago.
You can take a look at it here:
http://www.opal.dhs.org/involved/debian/apache/index.oml
It is just a start and I have probably changed my mind since then. :)
Regards,
// Ola
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:30:07AM -0400, sean finney wrote:
> hey guys,
>
> i totally agree, and have had an inkling to bring this up for some time.
> web apps are totally un-standardized in how they install themselves,
> bad enough in some cases to actually do damage (to themselves, at
> least).
>
> in my eyes, the following should be dictated by a "web apps policy",
> or at least "reference".
>
> - whether/how to prompt for database usernames/passwords via debconf
> (if necessary), and how not to store the root password.
> - whether/how to prompt for whether to leave the database after purge
> - default settings, disallowing default username/passwords for
> web-accessible services.
> - how to get a list of different installed web servers, and how to
> select which ones to target for installation.
> - whether/how to include one's configuration with apache. ideally there'd be
> a conf.d style directory, though if the apache folks could settle
> on a name for their config script calling that in postinst would work
> too :)
> - php ought to have a php.d directory
> - whether/how to restart the web server
> - fhs-compliant layout for sites, examples of how to seperate the config
> from the rest of the site. what constitutes something that ought to
> be in /var/cache, /var/lib, et c.
> - debhelper macros for as much as possible
>
>
> there's probably more.... anyway, i'd be very interested in discussing
> this further, as i think it's an area that could use a lot of work
> (post-sarge, of course:)
>
>
> sean
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