Bug#405773: Mysql auth how then?

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

On Thursday 28 February 2008, Peter Scott wrote:
> Can somebody please, please tell me HOW YOU DO auth with etch
> apache 2.2 mysql?

You can't, unfortunately.

Your best bet is probably to grab the apr-util 1.2.12+dfsg-2 source 
package from testing, add --with-mysql to the configure line in 
debian/rules, install the libmysqlclient15-dev package, and recompile 
it on etch.

This has some caveats, however:

- it is not compatible with the php mysql extensions as they are 
compiled in etch (might lead to segfaults)

- mod_dbd from apache2 2.2.3 has some bugs that were fixed in 2.2.6, 
so I am not sure it works at all, see e.g.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=434562

- apr-util 1.2.12 has a bug that might make apache segfault if you 
serve files larger than 2GB on a 32bit system


If you decide to try it, though, I would be interested to hear whether 
it works.

Cheers,
Stefan