Apache 2.4 on Debian

ns1 got converted to 64-bit, and upgraded to Jessie. It’s been a little painful, but worked for the most part.

1) The biggest thing was installing core packages with :amd64 such that we were never left without dpkg nor apt.

2) PERL broke horribly, and that’s why we moved to Jessie — the only way to get it to REALLY reinstall/rebuild CPAN.

3) A couple of days later, 2 more Seagate drives threw a media chip, and racked up 3k-4k reallocated sectors over a couple of days. Not only have Seagate drives failed extremely rapidly under controlled power and temperatures (some of these were replacements of failed original drives), now, the warranty page on Seagate’s website gives a 404 error.

The drives were replaced with WD RED drives, which have been very stable in this environment. RAID6 ensured that at no point did we lose access to data, nor suffer any losses.

4) Apache 2.4 has changed a whole bunch. In 2.2, there were transitional packages off of the base names, and in 2.4, the transitional packages moved it back. Whatever. *sigh* That’s cleaned up, but was no real factor.

These changes in Apache 2.4 have been resolved:
* conf.d is no longer used
* sites-enabled/* must have “.conf” appended
* mod_auth_pam is no longer available
* “Require user” is now requires “pwauth” and “libapache2-mod-authnz-external” and new directives
* Require group” is now replaced with “Require unix-group”, and requires “libapache2-mod-authz-unixgroup”, which is different from user authentication.

I’m still working on one of my aliased directories which is not working.

I’m also trying to sort out why Tine 2.0 is stuck “upgrading”. That’s normal for Tine 2.0 though. It’s really an annoying beast, and I’m glad I don’t rely on it. I really just want CalDAV, IMAP, and maybe something to sync notes and reminders. It seems this is nearly impossible.