cherokee package relies on php5-cgi for successful startup but not referenced in dependencies

[Dominic Evans]

Binary package hint: cherokee

# Abstract

installing and then trying to run the cherokee server results in an immediately failure due to the missing php-cgi interpreter

# Steps to reproduce

$ sudo aptitude install cherokee
$ sudo cherokee-admin

load page in browser, notice that cherokee process isn't running, click 'launch' button, get failure message:

"""
Could not launch the server

Something happened while launching the server. The error reported by the server follows:

source_interpreter.c:313: ERROR: Couldn't find interpreter 'php-cgi -b /tmp/cherokee-php.socket'
"""

# Difference between actual and expected

cherokee should launch out of the box, if the config references php-cgi then that package should be installed automatically else the config should be modified to remove the php dependency

# Fix / Workaround

$ sudo aptitude install php5-cgi

cherokee launches fine

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 9 21:24:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: cherokee 0.99.14-1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: cherokee
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-2-generic i686

[Leonel Nunez (leonelnunez)]

see my comments on this bug :

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cherokee/+bug/379777/comments/1