Ticket #17774 (new enhancement)
Provide a more usable default-configuration for Lighty/lighttpd
| Reported by: | mr_bond@… | Owned by: | ryandesign@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 1.6.0 |
| Keywords: | configfile | Cc: | scurippio@… |
| Port: | lighttpd |
Description
The default configuration file is not well suited for OS X or Macports. We should provide a sane default, so users easily can start using the package.
The config-file in Macports, looks like it's been taken directly out of SLES/SuSELinux.
server.document-root, should be something inside macports, like /opt/local/www/htdocs, or /opt/local/www/data.
the user/gid, should be the user created by macports, "_www", not "wwwrun".
The config should be usable almost out of the box. Novice users will spend many hours debugging theese things, and then turn to the irc-channel or such for help. Maybee they will end up not using lighttpd at all, or use it on a system with "easier to use" packages.
It is very nice that the port has a launchdaemon launcer.

