Re: Ann: WebObjects Adaptor for Apache 2.2.x

Let me be the first to say THANK YOU.

This is great.

On Jul 3, 2006, at 8:30 PM, Travis Cripps wrote:

> A number of people have expressed interest in using the WebObjects  
> adaptor with Apache 2.2.x.  I finally gotten a chance to sit down  
> and work on it today.  I'm writing to let you know that it's  
> available in the Project Wonder CVS repository.
>
> The necessary changes turned out to be mostly minor updates to  
> change calls to outdated/deprecated functions.  The biggest (and  
> non-trivial) change was for SSL support.  It's been re-written to  
> use Apache's mod_ssl module.
>
> I've tested with MacOS X 10.4.7, Apache 2.2.2, with and without ssl  
> support.  It works in all of my tests.
>
> Configuration of the web server to work with the adaptor turned out  
> to be surprisingly challenging, due to the new, very strict default  
> access rules that ship in Apache 2.2.x httpd.conf file.  Once I  
> discovered that, it was trivial to change the setting, but it's  
> worth mentioning here to save some people a lot of frustration.
>
> The new default configuration is:
>
> <Directory />
>     Options FollowSymLinks
>     AllowOverride None
>     Order deny,allow
>     Deny from all
> </Directory>
>
> Your options are to comment out the last 2 lines of that block, or  
> to override them in a VirtualHost block.  Just setting the usual  
> Location  block didn't seem to work for me.
>
> And, of course, either change the name of the WebObjectsAlias  
> setting from /cgi-bin/WebObjects to <foo>/WebObjects or comment out  
> the ScriptAlias definition for the /cgi-bin/ directory.
>
> Other than these tips, it's pretty much the standard compilation  
> and installation, and configuration.
>
>
> 1) Alter the make.config file in the Adaptors directory of the  
> Wonder repository to reflect your apache installation setup.
> 2) Run make to build the Adaptor
> 3) Curse because of that one setting you forgot.  Fix it.
> 4) make clean; make
> 5) Install the mod_WebObjects module with apxs
> 6) Configure your httpd.conf and either link or copy the WebObjects  
> directory from the standard location (if on MacOS X) to your new  
> htdocs directory.
> 7) apachectl configtest; apachectl graceful
> 8) Test.
> 8) Curse again.  Change the httpd.conf file as necessary.
> 9) apachectl graceful.  Go to 8 as necessary.
> 10) Finally!  apachectl graceful
>
> Enjoy your shiny new WO adaptor. :)
>
> Travis
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