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Apache web server (again)
1 September 1998
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| See also Apache topics. |
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1 September 1998
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| Installing apache is pretty straight forward. However, I've mucked this one up. |
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The first attempt
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| First, I installed the wrong version of apache (/usr/ports/www/apache13). However, I wanted FrontPage extensions, so I should have installed apache-fp. But you need the security package DES for that. As I found out when I tried to install it. |
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DES
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| I followed the instructions found in the FreeBSD
handbook for compiling
ports from the CDROM. I chose /usr/ports/security/p5-Crypt-DES.
Then I checked to see which crypt
mechanism was installed. Hmmm, it was still libscrypt and not libdescrypt. So I figured that DES failed to install. So I used /stand/sysinstall to get DES. I selected: Index, Dists - DES, DES. But then I wasn't sure what to do next. I had been searching the manuals, but I found nothing. I even rebooted. Then I went back to the DES directory and did a MAKE INSTALL. It failed. OOPS! Forgot to remount the CDROM. After doing that, I checked the encryption libraries by doing:
WOO HOO! I found the DES files. I suspect that because Apache was running when I installed DES. So after rebooting, the next make install succeeded. |
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apache-fp
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Now I went to /usr/ports/www/apache-fp and followed the instructions at my favoured
resource. I choose the option of:
That's when this familiar message appeared: WARNING: MS FrontPage Extentions require the DES Library WARNING: Install the DES Library, then build apach-fp And yes, that is how they spell extensions. But I'd already installed DES! So I rebooted to see if that made any difference. Then I repeated the above. Now it's complaining about /usr/ports/distfiles already existing. Oh yes, that's because I have that as a symbolic link for building from CDROM. But now I'm building from the Internet. So I removed that directory. Now it's building again |
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10:45 pm
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| Now it's been building for over 90 minutes. Downloading fp30.bsdi3.tar.Z
from ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/products/frontpage actually. It's up to
almost 8 Mb on an ADSL line. That must be one slow server. And I'll bet it's
NT and not FreeBSD! I'll finish this another night. |
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10:55 pm
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| DOH! Just as I published the above, the download finished. I'm not very
impressed with the speed. According to the stats, 8,902,416 bytes were transferred
in 5716.4 seconds. That's a grand total of 1.52Kbytes/second. I can get faster
speeds over my 14.4 modem! But anyways, it's compiling now. We'll see how that goes. |
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11:09 pm
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| It's compiled. Now it's doing the post-compile installation. Something went wrong. During Step 3, I entered a non-default value for the FrontPage Administrator's use name. After that it said: Directive ResourceConfig not found. Error: /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf invalid Please change /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf as follows: ResourceConfig /user/local/etc/apache/srm.conf AccessConfig /user/local/etc/apache/access.conf hit enter to continue Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Well, I'm not sure if it installed successfully or not. So I did another make install. And this time, the above error did not occur. It seems to have been installed correctly, but I'll try running it tomorrow night. |
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6 September 1998
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Tonight I tried running my installation of apache. Here's what I did:cd /usr/local/sbin ./httpd Then I tried my browser. It worked. And a cheer was heard. The next step is to try publishing using FrontPage 98. Hmmm, it asks for the FTP server name. To me, that means the FP extensions are not installed. Maybe it's not httpd that I should be running. I've searched around and can't find a version of the server that includes the FrontPage extensions. This is annoying. |