[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#600050: Bug#600050: /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/15-fastcgi-php.conf: fastcgi-php file missing a required directive

[Arno Töll]

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On 07.04.2011 19:40, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> What other settings are you thinking about?

I was thinking, about the following directives:

server.bind
server.port

This one is essential. Not so much because of its default value (which
is 0.0.0.0) which can be left as is, but because virtually everyone may
want to change this. Think yourself, what's the first thing you do,
after installing a new daemon which opens network connections? You open
the configuration file and adapt IP (and port) to suit your needs. If
that setting is present in the default configuration file, we enhance
transparency and everyone knows immediately how to achieve that task.

You might know, server.port /can/ be omitted if you know what you do
since there are alternative ways to pass listening ports. But I vote
again for transparency here.

Next is to configure the web server, this is nothing we can (or should)
do for users. Therefore we end up with the same thing as before: Provide
a reasonable default configuration that suits best for the vast majority
of users.

Afterwards you might want to tweak settings to increase performance,
scale the daemon to suit your needs and so on. We should give some hints
there, I was thinking about those directives:

server.event-handler
server.max-connections
server.max-fds

I was about to suggest "change event-handler to sys-epoll", but then
kfreebsd and hurd came into my mind. However max-connections and/or
max-fds are the first issues people run into, if there are problems. So
we might provide them as well, again for transparency.

For better init compatibility also server.pid-file should be set and not
rely on start-stop-daemon if PID file support comes for free.

(Now we're really off topic)

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with kind regards,
Arno Töll
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