On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 15:34, John Hosie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to this list. I've got lots of background in Unix and C and a fair > background in web-based development. But I haven't really done any Apache > modules before. I've got a task of taking old application written in Server > Side JavaScript (SSJS) running on a NetScape 4.x server on HP-UX, and making > it run in C on an Apache server. The SSJS has been converted already to C/C++ > using NSAPI. This runs both on Linux and HP-UX. But because we're targeting > Linux servers, the target web server OS will be Linux - Red Hat Enterprise 5 > Advanced Server. Current development environment I have to work with is > Cygwin. There is also a Linux server I have access to for now, which I am > assuming is different from the development server we're expecting in a couple > of weeks. "uname -r" yields: > 2.6.9-55.0.2.ELsmp > That all said, I need to know what I need to get started. Cygwin packaging to > start with would be nice. Sample base module code would be great. > > I also will need to know what packages will need to be put on the Red Hat > development environment.
I don't know about RedHat. Here's the list of packages I have on debian. I think you can figure out which are the names on RedHat. apache2-mpm-worker apache2-threaded-dev apache2-utils apache2.2-common libapache2-mod-apreq2 libapache2-mod-perl2 libapr1 libapr1-dev libapreq2 libapreq2-dev libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dev Mainly you'll need the development headers in /usr/include/apache2 and /usr/include/apr-1.0 You'll need the executables apxs2, apr-1-config (or apr-config), apu-1-config (or apu-config). I recommend that you take the sources of apache2 and compile them with no optimisation and all debug symbols (-O0 -ggdb3 -fno-inline etc), with all modules. Whenever you'll get in trouble, you can install your modules in the apache with the debug symbols and you can debug it (run apache2 with the switch -X). Spend some time studying the sources of apache2 in order to detect the hook points. Hooks are executed by functions starting with ap_run. Grep for ap_run over apache's sources. Regards, Sorin
