[Spip-maintainers] Bug#612467: spip: Incomplete install documentation

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 05:31:28PM +0100, Romain DOUMENC wrote:
> 
> After a fresh installation via apt-get, the documentation (as given by the file
> README.Debian) is rather not sufficient for me (and I assume I am not alone in 
> this case...).

I do agree the instructions are a bit too scarce, even though that's not uncommon WRT Debian web apps packaging.

> Would it be possible to change this file for something like :
> 
> 1. Copy /etc/spip/apache.conf to /etc/apache2/sites-available/spip
> 2. Run a2ensite spip
> 3. Check that spip has a user access to a mysql database
> 4. Point your browser to spipsite/ecrire
> 

I'm not sure this is the best way to go, in particular if several web apps are co-located on the same apache server.

I'd advise instead to add an :
   Include /etc/spip/apache.conf
inside the virtualhost config in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default...

Then, I'm puzzled by the :
  # Uncomment this to add an alias.
  # This does not work properly with virtual hosts..
  # Alias /spip /var/lib/spip
in /etc/spip/apache.conf, as I have it just working now inside the default <VirtualHost *:80>...

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

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Olivier BERGER 
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