Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 11:07:09AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
John Hasler wrote:
Tom Allison writes:
Can someone explain why Apache-Common requires MySQL to be installed?
Ok, so it isn't the end of the world.
But, why is mysql referenced in Apache?
What is the function.
Apache now contains a module to authenticate requests against a MySQL
database (mod_auth_mysql).
This is not right.
This is definitely the wrong way to go.
I don't know of any other mod's that require their libraries to be
installed as part of apache_common "just in case".
Also, if you want something that does require a special case (like ssl)
doesn't it come as a special deb package to begin with?
Personally, if I was going to be hitting a database for authentication,
it would make a lot more sense to go with something like LDAP than MySQL.
But that's already included as a SEPERATE module libapache-auth-ldap.
This approach with mod-auth-mysql is breaking ranks with the rest of the
Apache methodology that is seen in Debian.
Is there something so specially unique about mod-auth-mysql that we
can't make the same approach with MySQL that we did with LDAP?
