Nginx upgrade breaks php5-fpm

[Marco Romeny]

I notice that the ppa ( only checked 0.8.54 ) uses /usr/share/nginx/www as the webroot instead of /var/www which confuses at least php5-fpm. Any good reason for the change? Of course, it would be great if php5-fpm wouldn't just assume it, or that it owned the directory itself, but /usr/share/nginx/www seemed unusual...

I noticed when upgrading from ubuntu's stock 0.7.* to 0.8.4 ( the upgrade isn't clean -- errors out until I remove 0.7.* and install 0.8.* ) and php5-fpm refuses to serve anymore due to the now missing /var/www

Sorry to reopen this as a bug - I do believe it's fairly significant and will impact quite a few people. The 'answer' I got to the previously filed question "/usr/share/nginx/www is good" is not really an answer - merely an opinion. Blue is a nice color.

[Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield)]

"Blue is a nice color?" Hm?

Debian policy states that /var/www should not be used. If php5-fpm expects that directory to exist, then it should handle that, not Nginx. I'll add a fix for this in the php5 package that is supplied by our PPA.

Because of part 4 in Debian Policy 11.5 I will not add this back to Nginx.

[Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield)]

I added the directory to nginx-common.dirs. It's uploaded to launchpad and will be building and published soon (depending on the queue). It takes about an hour of build time once it gets through the queue...

[Marco Romeny (marco-mimecom)]

I like Red too!

Glag the bug is fixed. To mee it's strange that /var/www isn't supposed to be used. I would believe that data that can be used by similar packages should stay fixed in one place. Apache, lighttpd, nginx all have as their main function to serve html-files, so it's make sense for /var/www to be a common place for such files in a default environment.

Truth be told, I have almost always set up my own directory for the sake of doing virtual hosting etc, but it would be nice for people who don't dig around config-files to have a standard directory whatever webserver they elect to use...

[Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield)]

hmm... build broke... I'll look into this when I toss out the next version of Nignx.

[Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield)]

Alrighty, I have the php5 package building again. Bumped up to a newer version as well.

[Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield)]

Apparently there's some ugliness in the php5 source that is causing issues with ./configure checks. I tried a dirty ugly hack.... We'll see if this works.

[Marco Romeny (marco-mimecom)]

php5 has always been dirty business, but it gets the job done! like the mob kinda... Much appreciate the work though! Somehow I never feel comfortable compiling and packing myself -- always feel certain I'd do it wrong, and even if I didn't complainers like me would just come with opinions!

[Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield)]

In the php5 package that the Nginx team is uploading, a fix was added by adding '/var/www/' to 'php5-common.dirs'. It _should_ probably go into php5-fpm.dirs but I didn't know if any of the other php5 packages depend on a directory that they don't supply.

The version we have has the fix applied but I will forward the bug upstream and link this bug report to it so you can follow.