WL: httpd 2.4 (httpd24u)

[Carl George]

Imported from: https://answers.launchpad.net/ius/+question/259288
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Hello IUS!

I am requesting an Apache 2.4 package for CentOS 6. I am happy to test this if needed.

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

[Carl George (carl.george)]

Howdy Brian,

Here is our new package process.

1. Is it a good fit for IUS?
2. Is it maintainable with our current resources?
3. After building the package, is the requester willing to test the package to ensure expected behavior?

Looks like a "yes" to one and three. Let me start the porting work to determine how many dependencies we will also have to build. At the very least it will require a newer version of the apr package. I'll keep you posted.

[Carl George (carl.george)]

Hey Brian,

I have built apr15u-1.5.1-1.ius and apr15u-util-1.5.4-1.ius. They are in the development repos. I'm still working through the httpd spec file. There are considerable changes between el6, el7, and Fedora.

[Carl George (carl.george)]

I've made some progress on this, even to the point of finishing some initial RPMs. However, when starting httpd I ran into this error.

Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 56 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-lua.conf: Cannot load modules/mod_lua.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/mod_lua.so: undefined symbol: apr_bcrypt_encode

Commenting out that line allows it to start. I don't yet fully understand the implications of this; it will take more investigation.

[Carl George (carl.george)]

It appears the RPMs I built before still linked against the stock apr somehow. Explicitly requiring apr>=1.5.0 seems to have corrected the issue. I can install httpd24u, chkconfig it on, and start it up.

However, I'm noticing a different issue now. With the development repos enabled, I can't install the stock httpd. It seems yum is getting confused by having multiple pacakges provide apr-util-ldap. I need to poke around with the conflicts some more to see if I can clean up this behavior.

[Carl George (carl.george)]

I found that having something else provide "httpd" can cause issues with the following IUS packages.

# repoquery --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=ius --whatrequires httpd
apcu-panel55u-0:4.0.7-2.ius.centos6.noarch
apcu-panel56u-0:4.0.7-3.ius.centos6.noarch
php54-0:5.4.36-1.ius.centos6.x86_64
php55u-0:5.5.20-1.ius.centos6.x86_64
php56u-0:5.6.4-1.ius.centos6.x86_64
python27-mod_wsgi-0:4.4.2-1.ius.centos6.x86_64
python32-mod_wsgi-0:4.4.2-1.ius.centos6.x86_64
python33-mod_wsgi-0:4.4.2-1.ius.centos6.x86_64

I have opened the following bugs that will need to get resolved before we can proceed.

https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg/php55u-pecl-apcu/issues/1
https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg/php56u-pecl-apcu/issues/1
https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg/python27-mod_wsgi/issues/1
https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg/python32-mod_wsgi/issues/1
https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg/python33-mod_wsgi/issues/1
https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg/php54/issues/3
https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg/php55u/issues/14
https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg/php56u/issues/7

[Brian King (inflatador)]

I can confirm that the http24u package is working on CentOS 6, and with PHP using a UNIX socket.

[Brian King (inflatador)]

er....with PHP-FPM, using a UNIX socket, that is. Will test using PHP-FPM and TCP shortly.

[Brian King (inflatador)]

PHP-FPM and TCP sockets work as well. Thanks Carl.

[Carl George (carl.george)]

We will move this package to the stable repos tonight. It may take up to 24 hours to sync to all mirrors.

[Carl George (carl.george)]

For the record, we are not going to start building mod_php against httpd24u. The feedback we have received is that the preferred php solution is fpm, which works well with this package. Trying to build multiple mod_php packages for every combination of stock/IUS php/httpd would not be feasible. Using fpm provides a very simple solution. We will continue to build and maintain our existing mod_php packages that build against stock httpd.