Trafficserver fails to load plugin on Debian

[jbfavre]

As explained here, none of the remap plugins can be loaded by trafficserver running on Debian.

Trafficserver copies the plugins from /usr/lib to /run and tries to dlopen them from there. This is doomed to fail because, exactly as the OP said, /run is mounted with the noexec option. Upstream logic behind this is to dynamically reload plugins that are changed while the server is running. I guess it makes sense with custom plugins and some other scenarios but there's no way for this to work on Debian systems.

Do you have any insights or advice to workaround this?
My understanding is that mounting /run without the noexec option is not an option for Debian.

The bug report also proposes a patch.
However, before integrating it either in the Debian package or upstream, it'll need to be carefully reviewed.

Best

[bryancall]

You might want to change this option to disable reloadable remap plugins without restarting ATS: proxy.config.plugin.dynamic_reload_mode. This option will copy and rename the plugin into the run directory.

https://docs.trafficserver.apache.org/admin-guide/files/records.config.en.html#proxy-config-plugin-dynamic-reload-mode