Apache on Raspberry Pi

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:23 pm Post subject: Apache on Raspberry Pi

Team,

I'm trying yo get Apache2 to run on Raspberry Pi. As I write, its building without ssl as I found some posts suggesting that this could be a problem.

[ebuild R ] www-servers/apache-2.2.22-r1 USE="suexec threads -debug -doc -ldap (-selinux) -ssl* -static" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias -asis -auth_digest -authn_dbd -cern_meta -charset_lite -dbd -dumpio -ident -imagemap -log_forensic -proxy -proxy_ajp -proxy_balancer -proxy_connect -proxy_ftp -proxy_http -proxy_scgi -reqtimeout -substitute -version" APACHE2_MPMS="-event -itk -peruser -prefork -worker" 0 kB

The only pages that are actually served are autoindex pages. Have a look at http://62.3.120.142/~roy to see for yourself.
Even the

chithanh · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 3:26 am Post subject:

Are you using the kernel bcmrpi_cutdown_defconfig? It enables CONFIG_EXPERT, which makes some things optional that apache requires for proper functioning.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:06 am Post subject:

chithanh,

That may well be it. I've been putting off building my own kernel, I'm still using 3.1.9+ #110.
Kernel build time tonight. I'll post back with an update.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:42 pm Post subject:

chithanh,

I cloned 3.2.27 from git.

It detects everything but never mounts root. It waits for a very long time even with rootwait removed from cmdline.txt
Theres no panic ... I must be doing something daft.

root is on a usb disk - its detected and the partitions are shown.
As its USB, I use ext2. The kernel has ext4 and used ext4 for ext2/3 built in.
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chithanh · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:01 am Post subject:

The 3.2.27's bcmrpi_cutdown_defconfig should directly give you a booting config. Are you running up-to-date firmware?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:03 pm Post subject:

chithanh,

I have updated the firmware, made a booting 3.2.17 kernel from bcmrpi_cutdown_defconfig, used that as the basis of my own kernel with all of the Expert Menu options on and I still get segfaults on anything except an auto index page.
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chithanh · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 1:42 am Post subject:

I suggest that you disable CONFIG_EXPERT altogether.
Is apache the only program that segfaults? Can you get a backtrace?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:13 pm Post subject:

chithanh,

I was being lazy with Expert as its forced on by something.

Its only Apache that segfaults - then only when serving something other then an auto index page.
I can get a backtrace but I was hoping to avoid it as it will be a first for me.

According to Google I will need to rebuild Apache to do it.
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those that have never had a hard drive fail.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 5:47 pm Post subject:

My original install, with all the issues was a mix of cross compiled, native build and pump mode cross distcc built packages.

Having wimped out of learning to get a stack trace for the first time on something as complex as Apache, I rebuilt everything with pump mode cross distcc.
The only thing that would not build was Apache as it kept having linker problems with apr_crypto_<anything>
I traced that to a missing nss USE flag. I'm not sure if thats a bug or not.
Apache now says

xaviermiller · Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 10:58 am Post subject:

Hello,

It seems nss is needed, at least for dev-libs/apr-util.
I had crashes on a ~x86 configuration, and after added nss support in apr-utils, Apache-2.4 worked.

I opened a bug asking to enforce that dependancy
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 4:08 pm Post subject:

brutto,

Welcome to Gentoo.

If you need to ask about that, its not your problem but to test

zgrep /proc/config.gz CONFIG_EXPERT will tell the setting of that symbol. I get