[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#349676: lighttpd: /var/www/index.html overwritten without backup

Krzysztof Krzyzaniak eloy at kofeina.net
Wed Jan 25 11:03:03 UTC 2006


Torsten Marek wrote:
> Krzysztof Krzyzaniak schrieb:
> 
>>>Steve Purcell wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Package: lighttpd
>>>>Version: 1.4.9-3
>>>>Severity: important
>>>>
>>>>I don't recall being asked about it when lighttpd was last upgraded,
>>>>but it seems that /var/www/index.html was replaced without a debconf
>>>>question or a backup being made.
>>>>
>>>>I have apache2 installed, albeit not running, and the above file had
>>>>been edited since the apache installation originally put it there.
>>>>
>>>>Although I'm very happy that lighttpd is now being maintained in the
>>>>official archive, I'm a bit annoyed to find that my file has been
>>>>nuked, and I'm only glad this wasn't on a production system.
>>>
>>>
>>>Hmm, you're right
>>>
>>>Maybe adding /var/www/index.html as conffile would help for now. I will
>>>check how this is handle in other webserver packages.
>>>
>>>  eloy
> 
> Hi,
> 
> maybe we should better go the same way as apache2 does and introduce
> /var/www/lighttpd-default/ with our index.html, so we don't run into that
> problem any more (additionally to making it a conffile).

Fine for me.

  eloy
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