Thank you Tom, having his and your feedback would help a lot. Your direction could be useful for writing an INSTALL.Slackware file, I will try to write it down and will sent it to you for a check.
David, what is your degree of commitment with Debian now? Having in testing a .deb automatically generated by a slackware utility would offend your pride of old-timer skillful Debian Project member? :-) -- Massimo On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:19:59 -0400, Tom Brown wrote > Massimo: > > I waited a long time to reply. I am working with both apache 1.3 and > 2.2 on Slackware. > > httpd 2.2.8 > rivet 0.8.0 > slackware 12.1.0 > > httpd 1.3.41 > rivet 0.5.0 > slackware 12.0 > > A friend is working with Debian, apache 2.2 and rivet 0.8.0. > Following is my half of a recent correspondence with him. I am > encouraging him to let me post his Debian experience for you. We are > using Sqlite3 and PostgreSQL with apache-rivet. > > > My experience on Slackware 12.1 was different. > > > > INSTALLING RIVET > > > > Following Goose's subversion instructions got me rivet version 0.8.0 files > > in /usr/local/rivet. Then I used these steps to install rivet. > > > > 1. aclocal > > > > 2. autoreconf > > > > 3. ./configure --with-apache-version=2 \ > > --with-tcl=/usr/lib \ > > --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs > > > > 4. make > > > > 5. checkinstall --fstrans=no > > > > 6. installpkg rivet-0.8.0-i386-1.tgz > > > > Comments: > > > > Steps 1 and 2 issue warnings, but they can be ignored. I suspect these steps > > do what genconf.sh accomplishes in Goose's protocol. > > > > checkinstall (#5) creates a Slackware .tgz file to install with any of the > > Slackware package management tools. Checkinstall also makes .rpm and .deb > > packages. Installpkg (#6) is the default utility built into Slackware. > > Later, if I want to remove a package, I can use any of the Slack package > > management tools for that too. Removepkg is the default. > > > > CONFIGURING APACHE 2 > > > > This turns out easy in Slackware. You can probably eliminate steps 2 and 3 > > below and do fine. If you never use index.rvt, you can eliminate step 5 as > > well. > > > > 1. Add "LoadModule rivet_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_rivet.so" to the end > > of the dynamic shared object (DSO) support list. > > > > 2. Make sure your DocumentRoot is set properly. Mine is: DocumentRoot > > "/var/www/htdocs". > > > > 3. Make sure the controls for <Directory "/var/www/htdocs"> are set > > correctly. The defaults work for me. > > > > 4. Add handlers for .rvt and .tcl files to <IfModule mime_module>. > > > > AddType application/x-httpd-rivet .rvt > > AddType application/x-rivet-tcl .tcl > > > > 5. Add index.rvt and index.tcl to <IfModule dir_module>. > > > > DirectoryIndex index.html index.rvt index.tcl > > > > 6. Restart apache with either of the following. > > > > apachectl restart > > /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd restart > > > > That's it. Unless you want to use .tcl CGI files, you're done. > > > > Tom > Tom Brown > Free Geek Michiana > > Massimo Manghi wrote: > > > You're welcome, > > > > just out of curiosity: are you working with apache 2.x or 1.3? > > > > -- Massimo > > > > Tom Brown wrote: > >> Massimo: > >> > >> Your suggestion worked perfectly. Thanks. > >> > >> Tom > >> > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
