parameters for puppetlabs-apache module with RHEL SCL httpd24

[Tim Mooney]

All-

I'm hoping there are at least a few people on the list that are
successfully using the puppetlabs-apache module with the httpd24
packages from the Red Hat Software Collections Library, aka SCL.
If you're one of those people, can you share what parameters you've
had to override, or anything else you had to do to get puppetlabs-apache
to work with the nonstandard package/service/file/path names in httpd24
from SCL?

For those that aren't familiar with SCL, it's a collection of updated,
alternate versions of some packages. It's provided by Red Hat for
RHEL, and CentOS and potentially other RHEL-respins have it too.
For backward compatibility, Red Hat won't do major upgrades to the
"httpd" package from the 2.2.x version that shipped in RHEL 6.0,
but they are now providing a parallel "httpd24" package that installs
in a different spot, has a different init script, etc.

The default parameters in the puppetlabs-apache module assume the
older 'httpd' package, /etc/httpd for the base dir, etc. I'm looking
for what parameters people are passing to the apache class to get it
to work with the httpd24 alternate.

Thanks,

Tim
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[Felix Frank]

Hi,

I'm not at all familiar with RedHat and the SCL you mention.

Things that you can check generally:

1. Does the module correctly infer the version 2.4?

-> See manifests/version.pp

If not, see if you can fix the module. If this helps, do open a pull
request.

2. If the version is detected correctly, but a wrong package is assumed,
can the module be enhanced to detect the SCL package?

If so, that might be worth a feature request (although I cannot comment
on the odds regarding upstream acceptance of such a request).

Generally I believe that your package might break too many assumptions
of the module, so that it's not feasible to pass some parameter values
that will make things work.

HTH,
Felix