[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#743338: lighttpd: "Broken" migration to /var/www/html

Nelson A. de Oliveira naoliv at debian.org
Tue Apr 1 21:24:31 UTC 2014


Package: lighttpd
Version: 1.4.35-1
Severity: important

Hi!

Today I was seeing a lot of 404 errors in my lighttpd log.
All my files were perfectly under /var/www and I really couldn't find
anything wrong with them.

Then I saw that lighttpd was upgraded from 1.4.33-1+nmu2 to 1.4.35-1 and
in the changelog I saw "Change the default document root /var/www/html"
(it took a while to figure out and look at the changelog).

I see two problems here: it broke my server without any message (there
isn't a message in NEWS, for example) and the placeholder page gives a
wrong path too:

"The DocumentRoot, which is the directory under which all your HTML
files should exist, is set to /var/www."

I am also thinking if it should automatically change/update my
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf file to include the new path (like happened)
or if it should only use /var/www/html on new installs.

Thank you!

Best regards,
Nelson

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'experimental'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lighttpd depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers         1.18
ii  libattr1                    1:2.4.47-1
ii  libbz2-1.0                  1.0.6-5
ii  libc6                       2.18-4
ii  libfam0                     2.7.0-17.1
ii  libldap-2.4-2               2.4.39-1
ii  libpcre3                    1:8.31-2
ii  libssl1.0.0                 1.0.1f-1
ii  libterm-readline-perl-perl  1.0303-1
ii  lsb-base                    4.1+Debian12
ii  mime-support                3.54
ii  perl                        5.18.2-2+b1
ii  systemd                     204-8
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages lighttpd recommends:
ii  spawn-fcgi  1.6.3-1

Versions of packages lighttpd suggests:
ii  apache2-utils  2.4.7-1
ii  openssl        1.0.1f-1
pn  rrdtool        <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lighttpd/conf-available/10-dir-listing.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information



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