Service units for web applications

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 25 February 2014 16:04, Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 22:41 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Tue, 25.02.14 15:49, Stephen Gallagher (sgallagh at redhat.com) wrote:
> >
> > > In the specific case I'm looking at, I'm not (necessarily) talking
> > > about separate httpd instances. Rather, I'm talking about either
> > > different virtual hosts or different paths on the same virtual host.
> > >
> > > For example, I might have
> > >
> > > http://reviews.myserver.com/systemd-reviews/
> > > http://reviews.myserver.com/networkmanager-reviews/
> > > http://otherreviews.myserver.com/
> > >
> > > All of these would be operating under a single HTTPD instance on port
> > > 80, just with configuration enabling them to run different instances
> > > of the same application in different paths and on different virtual
> hosts.
> > >
> > > In the case of apache, it really amounts to something very similar to
> > > what you explained about the service snippets above. You just drop a
> > > file like the one copied below into the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory
> > > and it gets merged together when apache starts. From my perspective as
> > > a user, these really are individual services, they just happen to be
> > > running inside the same process. So I would ideally want to be able to
> > > enable and disable them the way I would the httpd service itself.
> >
> > But a vhost is not a systemd concept, it's entirely foreign to it. It
> > does not track it, maintain it, introspect it, know it. We really
> > shouldn't turn systemd into something that can manage things that are
> > inherently private property of other packages.
> >
> > Mabye httpd.rpm wants to include a tool that has a similar "feel" like
> > systemctl, maybe "httpdctl" or so, that covers this, but I am pretty
> > strongly of the opinion that that has no place in systemd.
>
> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/programs/apachectl.html
>
> But it is nothing like systemd, and does not handle enabling individual
> virtual hosts.
>
>
I am going to say dealing with virtual hosts can be a very touchy thing
which probably needs to look at something outside of the ctl programs to
control. Whatever happened to system-config-httpd?


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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