Bug#452984: drupal5: Drupal defaults to aliasing for all virtualhosts

2007-12-02 Thread Kyle Gordon
Hi Luigi, You've convinced me when you say it like that :-) Let's close this bug and have a good weekend. Kyle :-) On Wednesday 28 November 2007 00:39:11 Luigi Gangitano wrote: > Hi Kyle, > let's make some analysis and maybe we'll agree on agreeing. :-) > > - Drupal has it's own view of virtual

Bug#452984: drupal5: Drupal defaults to aliasing for all virtualhosts

2007-11-27 Thread Luigi Gangitano
Hi Kyle, let's make some analysis and maybe we'll agree on agreeing. :-) - Drupal has it's own view of virtual hosting (sites). Each site has to be configured with files in different directives. If no site is configured the default configuration applies to all sites. So you don't really hav

Bug#452984: drupal5: Drupal defaults to aliasing for all virtualhosts

2007-11-27 Thread Kyle Gordon
Hi Luigi, Surely it is safest for all if an item of installed software is disabled on all fronts unless specifically enabled for a particular site? It's all about reducing the 'surface area' of servers these day's isn't it? :-) If Drupal has a security issue, I'd rather have one vulnerable webs

Bug#452984: drupal5: Drupal defaults to aliasing for all virtualhosts

2007-11-27 Thread Luigi Gangitano
Hi Kyle, I'm sure you noticed that /etc/apache2/conf.d/drupal.conf is a configuration file that can be easily modified or deleted and drupal will keep your version between upgrades. It is provided as an easy way to set up drupal on a single host with no virtual hosting and any administrator with li

Bug#452984: drupal5: Drupal defaults to aliasing for all virtualhosts

2007-11-26 Thread Kyle Gordon
Package: drupal5 Version: 5.3-1 Severity: important When drupal5 is installed, it installs /etc/apache2/conf.d/drupal.conf. This makes the /drupal5/ url become present on all virtualhosts, including ones that are already using /drupal5/ for a custom install. This is a major impact on functionality