Re: [Slashcode-general] problems concatenating httpd.conf and slash.conf

[barry <sla...@i1...>]

At least 2 of us have had trouble getting the Virtual Server stuff 
configured during install. As one of them, I worked around it by not using 
a virtual server during the early part of my site development - but now I 
am nearing the end and I needed to fix that before deployment. I thought I 
would share some tips and results now that it seems to be working (haven't 
fully tested it yet, so both ymmv and mmmv) Surely a lot of what follows 
can be tweaked further, but hear is something at least for the record....

My virtual site machine has IP address 192.168.1.123. The goal is to have a 
virtual host called vslash.

In the httpd.conf file:

Outside of the virtual host section I have a line:

"NameVirtualHost *"

This turns on Name based virtual serving for what I guess are all the IP 
addresses of the machine. In this case, that means 192.168.1.123.

This is my virtual host section, located at the end of the file (although I 
don't think location matters). This is the slash server:

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
<VirtualHost 192.168.1.123>
ServerRoot /usr/local/slash/site/slash
DocumentRoot /usr/local/slash/site/slash/htdocs
ServerName vslash

<Directory /usr/local/slash/site/slash/htdocs>
     Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes Indexes
     AllowOverride None
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog logs/vslash_error_log
CustomLog logs/vslash_access_log common

Include /usr/local/slash/httpd/vslash.conf

PerlSetupEnv On
PerlSetEnv TZ GMT

SlashVirtualUser root
PerlAccessHandler Slash::Apache::User
PerlLogHandler Slash::Apache::Log

# this directive will redirect non-logged-in users to
# index.shtml if they request the home page; turn it
# on to help increase performance
#PerlTransHandler Slash::Apache::IndexHandler

# this directive will enable you to display user's pages
# with /~username
#PerlTransHandler Slash::Apache::User::userdir_handler


ErrorDocument 404 /404.pl

AddType text/xml .rdf
AddType text/xml .rss
AddType text/xml .xml
AddType text/xml .wml

AddType text/html .shtml

AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

AddType text/html .inc
AddHandler server-parsed .inc

# end of updates from slash.conf

</VirtualHost>
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


Note that there is an include line :" Include 
/usr/local/slash/httpd/vslash.conf". the contents of that file are:

# this is all the mod perl specific stuff that makes
# slash the root handler for the site
# ... you might want to check to make sure these are not already
# defined in your main httpd.conf, if you have trouble
AddHandler perl-script .pl
PerlHandler Apache::Registry

# add in modules for compiling into each process
PerlModule Slash
PerlModule Slash::Apache
PerlModule Slash::Apache::User
PerlModule Slash::Apache::Log
PerlModule Slash::Display::Plugin

# used in a couple of .pl files
PerlModule Image::Size

# add other, or comment out, DB modules here
PerlModule Slash::DB::MySQL
#PerlModule Slash::DB::PostgreSQL

# add or comment out plugin modules
PerlModule Slash::Ladybug
PerlModule Slash::Journal
PerlModule Slash::Search

LimitRequestBody 75000
#--------------------------------------------------------------

That seems to be it. I made a few other tweaks to httpd.conf, but they 
aren't related directly to slash operation.

If this is useful, someone can add it to the INSTALL or faq file if they 
want. I can't really support it other than here though.

Barry