Then you have to read the readme file.

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----------------------------------------- Installation: a) with Installer: Simply double-click the "Install_Apache"-icon. b) by hand: - Unpack the archive and copy the value to wherever you want. (e.g.: "Work:Networking/"). - Add these lines to your user-startup: ;BEGIN Apache Assign Apache: Assign bin: Apache:bin ADD Path Apache:bin ADD ;END Apache - Copy the content of the ENVARC-drawer to ENVARC: In both cases you have to add a group "www" and a user "www" to your network- settings: Open file "sys:Devs/Internet/groups" with a text-editor and add this line: NAME=www ID=45 USERS=www Open file "sys:Devs/Internet/users" with a text-editor and add this line: NAME=www UID=1001 GID=45 DIR=sys: SHELL=noshell ----------------------------------------- Configure: - Open the configuration-file "Apache:conf/httpd.conf" with a text-editor (e.g. Notepad). - Search for the line starting with "ServerName". Replace "foo" with your network-name or with your IP of your amiga (Look at your internet-preferences). You don't need to edit the other settings, but it would be wise to edit these settings: - "ServerAdmin": Replace "foo@mail.de" with your own email-address. - "DocumentRoot": If you don't want to store your content into "Apache:htdocs", you can replace the path with your prefered one. If you do so, you must change the line starting with '' too. IMPORTANT: => All paths in the config-file have to be spelled in unix-style!! You have to write "/Apache" instead of "Apache:". => If you choosed to install both versions of Apache (PHP4 + PHP5), you will find two different versions of the main config-file in 'Apache:conf/': httpd.conf for PHP5 and httpd-php4.conf for PHP4! => By default apache with PHP5 is set to port 80 and apache with PHP4 to port 8080. For further information please refer to the manuals or to "http://httpd.apache.org/". ----------------------------------------- Starting / stopping: To launch the server, open the "Apache:"-drawer an double-click "starthttpd.rexx". To stop it double-click "stophttpd.rexx". After starting, try to access the apache-start-page by typing "http://localhost" into your web-browser. It should appear after a few seconds. If you have installed the PHP4-version too, then you can start and stop this server with "starthttpd-php4.rexx" and "stophttpd-php4.rexx". ----------------------------------------

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@nbache

Did you add the user 'www' in group 'www' to you internet-settings?
After trying to load 'suexec', apache checks these settings.
It is described in the readme-file, how to do that. Be sure, that the user-id and the group-id is unique.
Even if you installed apache with the installer-script, you have to do it. Thanks to magham this will be fixed in the next release

BTW: suexec is and will not be required by apache/OS4. So don't worry about it.

cygnusEd

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@all

Thanks for your posts Hope that there are not too much bugs in it


@opi @wegster @CodeSmith

I think I will publish my code in a diff-file. There are too much handmade things in it, which will not work together with 'configure'. I've configured all parts under Linux and adapted it to the needs of the SDK under OS4.
But first I have to cleanup my projects - don't like to see, that someone get's a heartattack after viewing it.

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@MH2:
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Then you have to read the readme file.

Well, of course

Now why didn't I ever get *that* obvious idea -- oh wait, I did

As I mentioned, I'm fairly familiar with Apache already, and with the excellent readme file (which already was praised by somebody earlier in this thread, and which I followed to the letter), I thought I couldn't have done anything wrong. And as I checked everything again, it turned out I hadn't ... except for this little beauty of a typing error in the groups file:

NAMEe=www ID=45 USERS=www

Doh ...

Thanks anyway. It works fine now.

One more question for CygnusEd, though: Is it Apache that outputs lots of lines containing "Function alarm() not implemented" on the serial output? If so, what does it imply (anything to be worried about?), and could that output be turned off?

Best regards,

Niels

@Niels

I am wondering of what value Apache is to me with my AmigaOne at home with no one but me accessing it. It is not a webserver.

Might I use it as a practice site for employment elsewhere?

Use it in place of ARexx or python (or AmigaDOS!) as a report tool? like "serving" me pages constructed from a database of items? I have pictures, programs, addresses and email that might benefit from my creating PHP of a selection scheme to collect a desireable subset of the entire database. Since SQLLite is a relational database, could intermingle those databases.

Is this the right line of thought about having Apache on my AmigaOne?

Curious,

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@nbache

Oh - damn, I forgot to switch off this debugging message. But you don't have to be worried about this. The alarm-function is not implemented in this release and this message should show me, when this function is called.

I have an alarm-function for Apache, but it is not tested well.
The only problem is, that timeout for requests is not working. This is not a big problem, if you use Apache for developement.

If it is a problem for you, I can send you a recompiled binary.

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@CygnusEd:
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Oh - damn, I forgot to switch off this debugging message. But you don't have to be worried about this. The alarm-function is not implemented in this release and this message should show me, when this function is called.

Yes, I thought is had to be something like that. I was just wondering why something wanted to call something named alarm() so often, is that normal? (I don't know Apache *that* intimately )

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If it is a problem for you, I can send you a recompiled binary.

Well, it does tend to get in the way of the "normal" serial output, which I use regularly as an OS4 beta tester. But I guess if you are planning another release anyway in the not too distant future, I can live with it for a while.

Best regards,

Niels

@nbache

I'm afraid, that the next version will need a while. You can send me your email-address (profile) if you like - then I can send you a fixed binary.

cygnusEd

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@CygnusEd:
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[You can send me your email-address (profile) if you like - then I can send you a fixed binary.

Thanks -- you've got mail

Best regards,

Niels

CygnusEd:

good stuff. keep it up!

Great work! I have installed Apache and it seems to run. But what should I do with it?
My A1 runs 24/24h. Any ideas?

BTW where is a usefull site for Apache beginners? With ideas just to test this beast?

THX.

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@ggw:
Sorry, I missed your post at first and only saw it today when I revisited the thread. But I think your questions are good and deserve (an attempt at) answers.

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I am wondering of what value Apache is to me with my AmigaOne at home with no one but me accessing it. It is not a webserver.

Well, technically it is a webserver, as a webserver is simply a program that responds to TCP requests, usually on port 80, that follow the HTTP protocol. It might do more than that, but that's the base criterion.

Whether you can use it all by yourself depends on a few things. First of all, you should have your TCP/IP stack running, so a single machine dialing up via modem is probably not very practical (but possible). A good example is if you have several machines in a LAN, then one of them can serve pages or other objects (files, maybe pictures or MP3 files or whatever) to the others.

I also use it as a test-bed for e.g. the picture pages which I later publish on http://nbache.dk/ -- I can put the new files into the directory/ies defined as Apache's DocumentRoot (the place from where it serves its files), and then browse them with my web browser from the same machine or another one on the LAN, even let my wife have a look from her PC to make sure they also look acceptable under Windoze. The great thing about testing like this is that the conditions are very close to the live situation, as there is a webserver involved also in the test environment.

Finally I also sometimes open a port (not necessarily the standard port 80) through my router, so friends and family can fetch pictures from e.g. our last outing or party, without them getting too public.

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Might I use it as a practice site for employment elsewhere?

That's a very good idea, and definitely possible. Apache is configured the same way on all platforms (more or less, at least), and experience with running it at home can definitely be useful professionally.

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Use it in place of ARexx or python (or AmigaDOS!) as a report tool? like "serving" me pages constructed from a database of items? I have pictures, programs, addresses and email that might benefit from my creating PHP of a selection scheme to collect a desireable subset of the entire database. Since SQLLite is a relational database, could intermingle those databases.

This is where I start getting on thinner ice. I use web servers at home only to serve HTML (and files). I don't know any PHP, and in fact also no Python. And I also haven't yet had a look at SQLLite to see what it can (and can't!) do. But I don't see why not.

At work we use Apache (on AIX) for a variety of applications, usually involving some program being started as CGI, and ending up generating a HTML page on the fly. What lies in between can be anything from a simple shell script, through a Perl (yukk!) program, to a full-fledged C++ program. Often those programs access our Oracle database to retrieve parts of the information presented.

We have complete systems that run like this, where the users interact with "screens" made up of such dynamic HTML pages. Works quite nicely as a quick gapstop when we lack the resources for something more elaborate.

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Is this the right line of thought about having Apache on my AmigaOne?

Could well be. You can do almost anything with it. And as mentioned, you don't really need an actual network, although you do need the TCP/IP stack.

But of course, many of the really useful applications will probably have to wait until CygnusEd gets done with the CGI stuff.

Best regards,

Niels