[CentOS] A silly question about getting access to webapp installed with yum

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 18:34:44 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan
<raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Brian Mathis
> <brian.mathis+centos at betteradmin.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan
>> <raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yum only downloads and installs RPM files, so in general you will use
>> the rpm command to get the details of the packages you installed.
>>
>> You can see all the files included in a package by using "rpm --query
>> --list <package>".  For apache web apps, the centos style is to place
>> an include file in /etc/httpd/conf.d with the configuration for the
>> app, but your apps might have done something different.  Take a look
>> at the include file and see if you need to configure something.  There
>> may be docs in /usr/share/doc/<packagename> explaining what you need
>> to do.
>>
>
> Sure. I will do that in about 13 hours and report back to this list.

If you are lucky, the app will place a file with an obvious name in
/etc/httpd/conf.d/ with some comments about what you have to change
locally to set it up -  perhaps even commented out lines that you can
uncomment to active the defaults.   If you are not so lucky you may
have to understand the original app setup, then look at the rpm -q
--list packagename output to figure out where the packager installed
the parts.   Even then you are generally better off with the yum
installation because it will take care of any required dependencies.
-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com



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