On 2014-11-02, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently the apache-httpd (Apache httpd 2.x) port defaults to using > various directories under /var/apache2 (htdocs, logs, cgi-bin, icons, > error). Now that we clearly need to support multiple httpd's in ports > (base httpd, while useful in some cases, is not able to support some > of the software in ports), I think it would be nice to make the > various http servers as interchangeable as possible in the default > configuration, so I propose to change these to use the "usual" locations > under /var/www.
I guess the counter argument would be that this renders it difficult or impossible to run different http servers on the same machine (sort of like unbound+nsd setups). Before we had slowcgi(8), I was looking in ways to interface CGI scripts with nginx and the Internet is full of advice to just run CGIs under Apache on the same host. Which makes me wonder just how common it is to set up web sites that are combined from several http servers on a single host, with one server taking the role of reverse proxy. That's just idle speculation on my part, though. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
