Re: pgAdmin4-web install issues WAS: PgAdmin4 is not usable when installed from RPMs on Fedora linux

On 10/10/2016 03:36 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com
> <mailto:josh@agliodbs.com>> wrote:
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>     On 10/09/2016 04:36 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>     > I'll confirm here that the Web version doesn't work either from the
>     > Fedora packages.  In the case of the web version, this appears to be
>     > because of confusion between Python2 and Python3 dependencies.
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>     Leaving out the SQLite bug (see other thread), here's the issues with
>     the Fedora24 packages:
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>     1. if the user intends to use pgadmin4-web with httpd, then the user
>     needs to install httpd and python3-mod_wsgi packages (or mod_wsgi on
>     CentOS and RHEL).
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>     2. the packages need to create the directory /usr/share/httpd/.pgadmin,
>     and add the SELinux label so that apache can write to it:

>     chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /usr/share/httpd/.pgadmin
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>     The latter is going to be hard to do if you want the pgadmin4 app to
>     continue to be independant of httpd (for example, to allow install with
>     nginx).
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> Wouldn't it be better to make it put the files somewhere under
> /var/lib/pgadmin? Seems like a more reasonable location for server-side
> pgadmin. And upstream might want to make that "easily modifiable by
> packagers" so it can be adapter to whatever distro it's being packaged
> on? Surely it's wrong to store metadata file in /usr/share...

.pgadmin dir is getting written to $WEBHOME, which is why it's in
/usr/share/httpd on Fedora.  On debian it's presumably in /srv/www/.

And you'd need the SELinux perms even if it was in /var/lib/, because of
the nologin status of the Apache user.