[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#680755: Bug#680755: lighttpd: Upgrading from Squeeze disables directory listing

Olaf van der Spek olafvdspek at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 15:31:20 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov
<flatworm at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> While I think this change is generally a good idea, upgrading to Wheezy
> broke the directory listing behaviour for me as the mentioned
> configuration file wasn't symlinked under /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/
> automatically for me.

That's kinda by design. Directory listings should not be enabled automatically.

> Hence I propose that at least this change in behaviour should be
> mentioned in NEWS.Debian.

Do you really think this little change is NEWS worthy?

> Ideally though, the upgrading script should attempt to parse
> the existing configuration file to gather if the user has mod_dirlisting
> enabled and if so, replace the contents of
> /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/10-dir-listing.conf
> with the extracted values and then symlink it under the
> /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/ directory.
> If the user has the server.dir-listing directive commented out, no
> action could be taken.

That's far too complex.

Olaf





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