Web application package guidelines - ArchWiki

# Web application package guidelines

The factual accuracy of this article or section is disputed.

Reason: Symlinking part of webapps causes major issues. Furthermore the file system layout is insufficient for more than one instance of a webapp. (Discuss)

This page describes how to package web application which tends to install into `/srv/http` (for example packages written in php, such as phpmyadmin and phpvirtualbox).

## Directory structure

Layout example:

- `/etc/webapps/$pkgname`
- `/usr/share/webapps/$pkgname`
- `/var/...` (according to generic FHS conventions)

`/usr/share/webapps/$pkgname` files and/or directories should be symlinked into `/var` and `/etc/`.

`/etc/webapps/$pkgname` should contain some examples which helps to setup web-server to run this web application:

- `/etc/webapps/$pkgname/apache.example.conf`
- `/etc/webapps/$pkgname/nginx.example.conf`
- `/etc/webapps/$pkgname/other-web-server.example.conf`

## Install web application package

### Install with Apache

Install package

       # install 'foo' packaage
       # cp /etc/webapps/foo/apache.example.conf /etc/httpd/conf/extra/foo.conf
       # edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
          Include conf/extra/foo.conf

Start server

       # systemctl start httpd

### Install with Nginx

Install package

       # install 'foo' pacakge
       # ln -s /usr/share/webapps/foo /srv/http
       # cp /etc/webapps/foo/nginx.example.conf /etc/nginx/extra/foo.conf # conf file may be not present.

You may need configure FastCGI-PHP, FastCGI-CGI

Start server

       # systemctl start <fastcgi>
       # systemctl start nginx

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- Package development