[Typo3-debian] Provide a useful apache.conf - sendmail, cgi problems remaining

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Christian,

> My remaining problem is the missing detection of sendmail through the
> install tool (basic configuration). I provide symlinks from
> /var/lib/typo3-db-quickstart/execdir/ to the needed and existing binaries:

By default, mails are sent using PHPs mail() function and this works out of
the box as soon as you have installed an MTA (suggestions should be Exim or
Postfix).

> The check for imagemagick is now working.

Did you have a look at Svens GraphicsMagick packages yet? Please let's
suggest them because it seems to be better than any other ImageMagick
version I've seen so far...

> But sendmail is not. What should I do? Ignore the problem, because a test
> function is provided? 

So does the test work? What's the problem exactly?

> Any other suggestions for improving the apache.conf or the other setup of
> the package typo3-db-quickstart (depart from using the
> typo3-site-installer)?

My idea was something like this inside of /etc/typo3/:

System-wide defaults: Default settings for each of these products. File is
included from site-localconf (sitewide default configuration, see below).

- defaults/graphicsmagick.inc
- defaults/imagemagick4-2-9.inc
- defaults/imagemagick5-4-4.inc
- defaults/imagemagick6.inc
- defaults/gd-only.inc

Site-wide defaults: Default settings for one specific site (e.g. database
name, db user, etc.). Included from the top of typo3conf/localconf.php.

- sites/www-mydomain-com.localconf.php
- sites/www.anotherdomain-ch.localconf.php

Apache configurations: This is were the htaccess stuff etc. should be added.
The files are included from the Apache config file.

- httpd/www-mydomain-com.conf
- httpd/www-antherdomain-ch.conf

...

There are probably more ideas.

The idea of this is to have a completely modular site configuration. A whole
site can be backupped to another server with different database connection
settings but the configuration is placed at the same position in the path.

I'll stop here, waiting for your comments before continuing...

- michael
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