Re: apache suexec, non-standard docroot

[Hilko Bengen <bengen@debian.org>]

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net> writes:

> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, R.M. Evers wrote:
>
>> thanks for your speedy reply. so it's possible to only recompile
>> suexec? or do you mean i have to recompile apache with proper
>> patching?
>
> suexec is compiled together with apache. It is possible to compile
> suexec on its own but it is much more complicate than compiling it
> together with apache, because suexec links with 2 libraries that are
> created while apache builds.

I think that there are many admins out there who would like to be able
to build their own suexec more easily than they can right now. This is
my idea to acheive this:

* Build suexec as a separate binary package (apache-suexec or
  apache2-suexec).

* Possibly build more than one apache-suexec-* package with different
  configurations that are commonly used by webserver admins

* Provide infrastructure to build an apache-suexec-custom package.
  This is done by the Exim4 maintainers for admins who are not content
  with the available selection of exim4-daemon-light and
  exim4-daemon-heavy packages.

What do you think?

Cheers,
-Hilko