On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 09:47 -0700, Jared K. Smith wrote:
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote: I'm not sure if I'm missing anything here, but is it intended that webapps should not be accessible from anywhere but localhost by default?
That's my understanding, yes. It follows from the general understanding that network-accessible daemons (with perhaps the exception of sshd) should not be accessible from outside of localhost by default.
Now I'm curious... do you have a particularly strong reason why web apps should be different than any other network daemon?
Not really, it just seemed odd, but after thinking about it a bit more the reasons are valid. It might be nice if this was explicitly explained somewhere, though, and Harald's suggestion of using separate files to override the values in the shipped config files was explained; perhaps a README file in /etc/httpd/conf.d ?