Bug#468690: apache2: Apache is not always intented to be run as system-wide server
* Baptiste Mille-Mathias
| Package: apache2
| Version: 2.2.8-1
| Severity: important
Important? This sounds more like wishlist to me.
| For instance gnome-user-share (a small graphical application to share
| files over WebDAV) comes ith it own configuation file for apache to
| share a specific user folder) depends on it, and after the installation,
| apache is automatically launched to serve web pages on port 80, which is
| not the intended behaviour and thus is not really secure.
I don't see what's insecure about it showing the default web pages?
Your use case is something that (as you have noticed) is not supported
by the current package. I am not sure the complexity of having init
scripts and such in another package (which would have to not be
installed by default, no less) is something I want us to support.
[...]
| I'll be happy if you have some advice to workaround the problem in
| the meantime.
Remove the startup links?
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Tollef Fog Heen
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