apache2 location

[Joshua Root]

Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
> On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Bill Hernandez wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 24, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Chris Janton wrote:
>>>> On 2009-02-24 , at 15:35 , Scott Haneda wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My feeling is, the sooner the better, there are already a handful
>>>>> of blogs out there, which instructions and hard paths in their
>>>>> instructions pointing to the current location.  The sooner we put
>>>>> it where MacPorts recommends, the better the long term usability is
>>>>> going to be.
>>>>
>>>> how about leaving it where it has been for years? I suspect many
>>>> people who use the port have become "attached" to the current
>>>> location, including me.
>>
>>
>> Scott,
>>
>> Please don't change it.
>>
>> I wish mysql, pgsql, php were setup in individual directories like
>> apache2.
>>
>> That was one of the niceties of installing them individually in
>> /usr/local
>>
>> /usr/local/apache
>> /usr/local/mysql
>> /usr/local/pgsql
>> /usr/local/php
> 
> So we would add
> /usr/local/apache/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/usr/local/php/bin:etc............................
> 
> to our environment path?
> 
> And when apache, mysql or pgsql data out grow your disks you would move
> all your bin, data and etc to another volume and change your paths and
> startup parameters so they could find the new location for configs?
> 
> Data often needs to move. Binaries and configs hardly ever.
> 
> I think Scott sees an inconsistency and an error with the macports
> apache2 install. That's hard to deny.
> 
> Why not just park everything at /. No distribution I know of including
> apple will over write /apache2 and /mysql. Ok, now I'm kidding. Oh,
> maybe not.

This is starting to sound like GoboLinux. ;-)

- Josh