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Allowing skipping the installation of the webserver that is not used
Currently, the buildpack always install both apache
and nginx
, even though each app will use only one of them, increasing the slug size for nothing. It would be great if the unused one could be skipped during the install.
I see 2 alternatives:
- the nice one: automatically detect which server is used based on the commands used in the Procfile
- the manual one: allow configuring somewhere (maybe a setting in the
extra
section in composer.json) which server should be installed (defaulting to install both if this is not configured)
The issue with approach 1 is that a lot of users have custom startup scripts, compound commands, etc, so there'd always have to be an alternative way.
I too have been thinking about an extra
entry, but I am also looking into it for the in-progress PHP CNB, where we can maybe have users control this via project.toml
metadata instead (and actually have the web servers supplied by a separate buildpack that gets used automatically but can also be combined with e.g. other language buildpacks).