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Before you start reading:
I am not a native speaker, so there are probably spelling/grammatical errors
in this document. Feel encouraged to inform me of mistakes.
The webserver you hopefully will get after having read this howto is composed
of several parts, the original apache sources with some (well, many) patches
and some external executables. I recommend using the software versions I
tried, they will probably compile without greater problems and result in a
fairly stable daemon. If you are courageous, you can try to compile all the
latest-stuff-with-tons-of-new-features, but don't blame me if something
fails ;-). However, you may report other working configurations to be included
in future versions of this document. All of the steps were tested on a
linux 2.0.35 box, so the howto is somewhat linux-specific, but you should be
able to use it for other unixes as well.
You do not necesserily have to compile in all components. I tried to structure
this howto so that you can skip the parts you are not interested in.
The document is neither a user manual to Apache, SSL, PHP/FI nor frontpage.
Its prime intention is to save webservice providers some headaches when
installing their server and to do my little contribution to the linux
community.
PHP is a scripting language that supports dynamic HTML pages. It is a
bit like Apache's SSI, but by far more complex and has database modules for
many popular dbs. The GD libraries are needed by PHP.
SSL is an implementation of Netscape's Secure Socket Layer that allow
secure connections over insecure networks, e.g. to transmit credit card
numbers to web based forms.
frontpage is a wysiwyg web authoring tool that makes use of some
server-specific extensions called webbots. Some people think frontpage is
cool because you can create feedback forms and discussion webs without
having to know a bit about html or cgi. It even protects the designer
from uploading his/her site via ftp by using a builtin publisher. If you wish
to support frontpage but do not like to setup a windows server, the apache
server extensions are your choice.
Though this document has been downloaded some 100 times since I published
it, I received only little feedback. In particular, noone told me of other
working combinations. Combinations that work for me are:
- Linux 2.0.31, Apache 1.2.4, PHP 2.0.0, SSL 0.8.0, fp 98 3.0.3 (*)
- Linux 2.0.33, Apache 1.2.5, PHP 2.0.1, SSL 0.8.0, fp 98 3.0.3 (*)
- Linux 2.0.35, Apache 1.2.6, PHP 3, SSL 0.8.0, fp 98 3.0.4
(*) version 3.0.3 is
not recommended
v0.0/Apr 98: Preview version
v1.0/Jun 98: Now using Apache 1.2.6, updated fp section, minor corrections
v1.1/Jul 98: Sgmlized and restructered version
You can find the latest version of this document at
http://www.faure.de
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