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

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Arno Töll <debian at toell.net> wrote:
> 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.

This is a conf file, not a doc file. There's no need to clutter the
file with options that someone might change. I know that a lot of pkgs
choose to do so, but IMO a link to documentation is way better.

> 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

Event-handler is right by default.

> 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.

It's in there already. ;)

Olaf