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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
