Apache Configuration

kricha01 · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 7

First off, I am very new to Linux, so please bear with me. I've just finished emerging the ebuild of Apache which I will be using with Cricket. I was able to get cricket working properly, however, I am struggling with Apache. I've consulted the documentation for Apache (on their site), and alot of the directory / file structure they reference is not the same that is currently on my system. Meaning alot of the directories n such are not there. I would appreciate any help that could be provided with getting me started on configuring APache. Perhaps someone who's configured Apached using the ebuild provided on the Gentoo site. Especially with configuring Apache to permit CGI which is needed in order to run cricket. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nossie · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 181

Please post a little more detail about the dirs you cannot find.

The document root and cgi-bin are located at /var/www/localhost

Nossie

kricha01 · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 7

Ok...I will. However, the big picture here is that I have no idea what I'm doing! :-)

So, even if I knew where the directories are, i have no idea what to do with them. But anyway....here's some of the thing that are missing...

/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/

httpd.conf

The documentation also states to run a "ScriptAlias" command? I attempt to do what they say, and i get a message stating that the command could n ot be found.

Thanks for your help.

thecooptoo · Veteran Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 1353 Location: UK

the core apache stuff is in /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf
the config stuff you will fiddle with is /..../conf/commonapache2.conf

documents come from /var/www/localhost/htdocs

the default cgi is /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin & IIRC there is already a directive to allow script to run from there.

an understanding of allow/deny is useful is you start getting file permission problems.

tail /var/log/apache2/error_log

is useful for seeing what errors you are generating

Nossie · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 181

ok...

The config files for apache2 on Gentoo are located at /etc/apache2/conf/
Instead of httpd.conf, you will find commenapache2.conf and apache2.conf (or someting like that, i currently don't have access to my Gentoo box...). Have a look at those config files. I'm not sure if CGI is suppost to work out of the box, because I have never used CGI myself.

In /etc/conf.d/apache2 (or something like that) you can specify the commandline options that are used to start the server. I know that you must change enable PHP there by adding '-D PHP' to the commandline options. Don't know about CGI though...

I hope this helps you a bit further. I will have a look at my config when I get home..

Nossie