Chapter 5 - Ordering

[Linuturk]

• Top Down versus Lexicographical. The default ordering used to be lexicographical and is now top down.
• Use show_highstate to examine the ordering of your states.
• Swap out the labs for these:
  • Update states to start and enable services in the correct order
  • Create an apache virtual host (use the documentation to find out what modules might be useful)
  • Reload apache if the configuration file changes. (Listen is best practice.)
  • Break out states into logical separate state files instead of one large file.
  • Include the PHP state in the Apache state file using the include call.