mod_fcgid: style & doc

Author: josephholsten

recipes/mod_fcgid.rb

@@ -28,8 +28,17 @@
     content '# conf is under mods-available/fcgid.conf - apache2 cookbook\n'
   end
 
-  if ((node['platform_family'] == 'rhel') && (node['platform_version'].to_i == 6)) ||
-      ((node['platform_family'] == 'fedora') && (node['platform_version'].to_i < 20))
+  # CentOS 7 (and recent Fedoras) have Apache 2.4, where FCGI socket path
+  # and shared memory path is managed adequately without further involvment
+  # neccessary (subdirectory is created under /var/run/httpd).
+  #
+  # However, when the path is specified manually, that subdirectory is NOT
+  # created automatically if it doesn't already exist and Apache fails to
+  # start. Since in recent RHEL systems /var/run is on tmpfs, end result is
+  # that chef-created subdirectory disappears on shutdown, and Apache fails
+  # to start after server reboot. Best to leave out these two settings
+  # unset then.
+  if ((node['platform_family'] == 'rhel') && (node['platform_version'].to_i == 6))
     directory '/var/run/httpd/mod_fcgid' do
       owner node['apache']['user']
       group node['apache']['group']

templates/default/mods/fcgid.conf.erb

@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
   IPCConnectTimeout 20
 </IfModule>
 
-<% if ((node['platform_family'] == 'rhel') && (node['platform_version'].to_i == 6)) ||
-      ((node['platform_family'] == 'fedora') && (node['platform_version'].to_i < 20)) -%>
+<% if ((node['platform_family'] == 'rhel') && (node['platform_version'].to_i == 6)) -%>
 # Sane place to put sockets and shared memory file
 SocketPath run/mod_fcgid
 SharememPath run/mod_fcgid/fcgid_shm