Re: Ann: WebObjects Adaptor for Apache 2.2.x

Great Job!  If I could not be the first, then not the last to THANK you.

I have spent hours on this but to no good results.  It will really save time
to me and those interested.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hunter Hillegas" <[email protected]>
To: "Travis Cripps" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:07 PM
Subject: 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 calls to outdated/deprecated functions.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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