Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/10/27/18:48:22
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:32:10PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>Hi,
>
>for an intranet project in our company I have problems with iis and try to
>migrate to apache. Apache is avaliable for windows or cygwin, but graphical
>remote configuring apache was left. As I'm using webmin for other linux based
>web server, I tried to use webmin on cygwin for doing this.
>
>So I've downloaded camp 0.9 and webmin 0.88 and install it under cygwin 1.3.3.
>
>Then after installing webmin I run into problems, because the main page could
>be loaded, but if entering other pages in the server area ,for example apache,
>fails with a "500 bad header" error.
>
>Because my perl knowledge isn't good enough to understand and analyse
>this problem with webmin's miniserv (with perl 5.6.1), I tried to configure
>the camp distribution to enable apache configuring with webmin.
>
>Now it's working, except authentification. Currently it uses a default
>user 'admin' which is set in the apache VirtualHost configuration.
>
>To enable webmin with the apache server, add/patch the below mentioned files.
>Currently I have tested not very deeply, so there might be some more
>places to patch, but for me it works.
>
>Limitations:
>1. restarting/stopping/starting apache does not work, because the webmin
> frontend depends on the apache server and doing this actions causes
> lost connections. So you have to restart apache remote over telnet or
> something else.
>
>Installation
>============
>1. Install camp http://apache.dev.wapme.net/packages/
>
>2. Install webmin http://www.webmin.com
> use the "Linux from scratch" operations system
>
>3. patch the below mentioned files.
>
>4. restart apache
>
>5. Start a browser and enter http://webmin/
> (if you have used the below mentioned servername and HOSTS entry)
>
>Note: Because my apache and webmin configuration knowledge is only
> very basic, please don't ask me for relating configuration hints.
> If you have questions, please look in the faq or mailing list on
> the relates web sites.
>
>Have fun
>
>2001/10/27
>Ralf Habacker
>IT-Manager
>Germany
>
>/usr/local/apache/conf/http.conf - add text
>#------------------------------------------------------------
>
># This must be first for providing working localhost
><VirtualHost *>
> DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs/
> ServerName <your workstation name>
> ErrorLog logs/error_log
> CustomLog logs/access_log common
> DirectoryIndex index.html
> <Directory />
> Options FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride Options
> </Directory>
></VirtualHost>
>
><VirtualHost *>
> ServerAdmin webmin AT localhost
> DocumentRoot /usr/local/webmin-0.88/
> ServerName webmin # or something else you want
> ErrorLog logs/webmin-error_log
> CustomLog logs/webmin-access_log common
> SetEnv WEBMIN_CONFIG /etc/webmin
> SetEnv WEBMIN_VAR /var/webmin
> SetEnv REMOTE_USER admin
> DirectoryIndex index.cgi
> AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl
> <Directory />
> Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
> AllowOverride Options
> </Directory>
>
>NameVirtualHost *
>#------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>/c/winnt/system32/drivers/etc/hosts - add text
>#------------------------------------------------------------
>webmin 127.0.0.1 or other ip adress your pc support
>#------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>/usr/local/webmin-0.88/apache/reconfig_form.cgi - patch
>#------------------------------------------------------------
>$ diff reconfig_form.cgi.orig reconfig_form.cgi -ubB
>--- reconfig_form.cgi.orig Sat Oct 27 20:52:34 2001
>+++ reconfig_form.cgi Sat Oct 27 20:52:56 2001
>@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@
> elsif ($l->{'words'}->[1] =~ /lib([^\/\s]+)\.so/ && -r "mod_$1.pl") {
> $inst{"mod_$1"}++;
> }
>+ elsif ($l->{'words'}->[1] =~ /(mod_\S+)\.dll/ && -r "$1.pl") {
>+ $inst{$1}++;
>+ }
>+ elsif ($l->{'words'}->[1] =~ /lib([^\/\s]+)\.dll/ && -r "mod_$1.pl") {
>+ $inst{"mod_$1"}++;
>+ }
> }
>
> # build list of supported modules
>
>#------------------------------------------------------------
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