httpd 2.4 is coming, RFC on module packaging draft

[Joe Orton]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 03:09:08PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> said:
> > The following is going to kill pretty much every packaged webapp unless they
> > are changed now:
> > 
> > https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#access
> 
> Did you read this part:
> 
>   "The old access control idioms should be replaced by the new
>    authentication mechanisms, although for compatibility with old
>    configurations, the new module mod_access_compat is provided."
> 
> It would be easy to include mod_access_compat in the Fedora default
> config for a release or two while the compat config is deprecated (and
> noted in the release notes as such).

Yup - the default config in the f18 httpd does load mod_access_compat, 
and I don't see a problem with shipping like that.

It would be good to convert webapps over for f18, having said that.

Regards, Joe