Installation of an Apache httpd server with FAI

[Torsten Schlabach]

Dear list!

I'd be interesting in sharing experiences with installing an Apache 
httpd server (with some modules, SSL, ...) using FAI.

Obviously, it's easy to define a class and select the Debian packages to 
be installed, including whatever worker, PHP and other modules one wants 
to install.

But due to the way Apache httpd is packaged in Debian, this does not 
make a full functional webserver for most people. In most cases, one has 
to enable a couple of (Apache) modules. I don't mean modules that come 
in separate .deb archives (such as libapache2-mod-php5 for example) but 
those which are packaged as part of apache2.2-common (such as ssl, ldap) 
which need to be enabled through a2enmod.

When building a SSL enabled server, there are even some more steps needed.

If course, I can write a script which basically does step after step and 
run it from FAI. But I wonder if I am missing some maybe more 
sophisticated mechanisms.

Regards,
Torsten