[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS as web server: what good/best practices to follow?

[Davide Poletto]

Hi Volker!

Thanks for your reassuring answer!

Regarding the apache22 I'm little bit inclined to use apache24 if I could
not use nginx instead (neither specifically due to Drupal 7 requirements
nor because apache24 is more updated than apache22 <- looking at various
publishers this isn't the case since both apache's packages refer to older
versions with respect to current Apache 2.4.12 - at least regarding the
Apache 2.4 software line).

The nginx package looks a little bit updated (looking at pkgsrc) but,
really, it's still at nginx-1.7.4 (August 2014) which is not the latest
available (nginx-1.7.12, released yesterday)

What I wrote above is not valid if I look at OpenCSW: in that case both
Apache and Nginx packages look quite updated.

Regarding the Document Root I'm glad to read that is possible to use a
dedicated ZFS dataset (in a data pool) editing the web server's
configuration file accordingly, that's what I want to do.

Kind regards, Davide.



On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote:

> Hi Davide!
>
>
> > I'm trying to understand (1st issue) what web server to use (both
> > apache and nginx are good candidates for Drupal, as far as I can
> > see) and (2nd issue) how to perform its installation (relying on
> > specific repositories that provide those packages or via pkgsrc as
> > happens with SmartOS) considering also the idea (hope that it will
> > not be too silly) that (3rd issue) it would be great to have the web
> > server document root in a separate ZFS dataset (so not into the root
> > pool).
>
> I am using the apache22 from the OmniOS "add-on" repository at
> ms.omnios.com.  It works perfectly and is absolutely good enough.
> Apache was installed on the server while it was running 012, but
> the server is now updated to 014.  Apache still works fine under 014.
> However, it serves only static content here, no Drupal.
>
> As document root, I created a separate ZFS dataset, called it
> /www, and edited httpd.conf accordingly.
>
>
> HTH and regards -- Volker
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