Re: Cocanwiki package
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 01:39:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Maybe you could mail them to me, and i add them to svn archive ?
>
> There seem to be two issues: (1) adding the LoadModule directive to
> the correct Apache config file, probably automatically; (2) setting up
> a simple mod_caml-enabled site for testing purposes.
>
> (1) should be done automatically. I investigated mod_perl to see how
> it is done over there: It seems we need a 500mod_caml.info file to be
> installed under /usr/lib/apache/1.3, containing just:
>
> LoadModule caml_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_caml.so
And a simple description if i remember well.
> and then one would call:
>
> if [ -x /usr/sbin/apache-modconf ]; then
> for i in apache apache-ssl; do
> if [ -e /etc/$i/httpd.conf ]; then
> apache-modconf $i enable mod_caml
> fi
> done
> fi
>
> in postinst and:
>
> if [ -x /usr/sbin/apache-modconf ]; then
> for i in apache apache-ssl; do
> if [ -e /etc/$i/httpd.conf ]; then
> apache-modconf $i disable mod_caml quiet
> fi
> done
> fi
>
> in prerm.
Ok.
> As for (2), here's some documentation you could add to README.Debian:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Installation
> ------------
>
> Make sure that the LoadModule line has been added to your Apache
> configuration (installing the Debian package ought to do this
> automatically for you). The LoadModule line should look like this:
>
> LoadModule caml_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_caml.so
>
> The Debian package comes with some simple example scripts which are
> located in /usr/lib/mod_caml/caml-bin. You can enable these scripts
> in order to test that your mod_caml installation is working. Add the
> following section to your Apache configuration file (eg. to
> /etc/apache/httpd.conf or /etc/apache/local.conf):
The example scripts should be in /usr/share/doc/mod-caml, should they not ?
> CamlLoad /usr/lib/mod_caml/registry.cmo
>
> Alias /caml-icons/ /usr/lib/mod_caml/caml-icons/
> Alias /caml-bin/ /usr/lib/mod_caml/caml-bin/
>
> <Location /caml-bin>
> SetHandler ocaml-bytecode
> CamlHandler Registry.handler
> Options ExecCGI
> Allow from all
> </Location>
Would it not be easier to add this directly, but maybe not activate it ? One
way of doing this is to add a commented out set of lines, or using a
non-executable script that needs to be setup.
> After stopping and starting Apache you should be able to visit:
>
> http://your.server/caml-bin/hello.cmo
>
> to see a basic message. Also try:
>
> http://your.server/caml-bin/params.cmo
> http://your.server/caml-bin/conditions.cmo
This would be cool.
> If you get an error, please examine any messages printed in the Apache
> error.log file (eg. /var/log/apache/error.log).
>
> It may help to compare the output from these scripts to the source
> code for the examples, obtainable from the mod_caml home page at:
>
> http://www.merjis.com/developers/mod_caml/
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/modcaml/
Ideally, those would be in /usr/share/doc/mod-caml/examples.
> For more advanced scripts using, for instance, the DBI database layer,
> you may need to load more modules in to the Apache process when it
> starts up. The author currently uses the following list of modules on
> his live servers:
>
> CamlLoad /usr/lib/mod_caml/registry.cmo
> CamlLoad /usr/lib/ocaml/3.08/extlib/extLib.cma
> CamlLoad /usr/lib/ocaml/3.08/postgres/postgres.cma
> CamlLoad /usr/lib/ocaml/3.08/dbi/dbi.cma
> CamlLoad /usr/lib/ocaml/3.08/dbi/dbi_postgres.cmo
> CamlLoad /usr/share/cocanwiki/html/_bin/cocanwiki.cma
Ok.
> (plus at least 10 other proprietary modules).
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This sounds really nice.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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