Re: [Connotea-discuss] Apache configuration problems

[Martin F. <ma...@ne...>]

Hopefully this will help some people setting up Connotea.

On our development server we have several instances of Connotea Code 
running on the standard single vendor installation of Apache. I've 
pulled out the configuration for codename "unstable", which is one of 
these instances, which I've documented below. (It is named unstable to 
remind everyone that we are allowed to break it, but it starts fine.) So 
several other instances are omitted from the Apache configuration, and 
there are more symlinks, and I've modified a couple things for privacy, 
etc., but if this were all there it should run the first instance.

In /etc/httpd/conf.d/connotea.conf:

   <VirtualHost _default_:80>
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html
     PerlOptions +Parent
     PerlSwitches -I/var/www/perl/unstable
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/xml text/css
     # development branch follows:
     PerlModule Bibliotech::Apache
     PerlModule Bibliotech::AuthCookie
     <Location /unstable>
       SetHandler perl-script
       PerlHandler Bibliotech::Apache
       PerlAuthenHandler Bibliotech::AuthCookie::authen_handler
       AuthName Bibliotech
       AuthType basic
       require valid-user
       #ErrorDocument 503 /unstable/paused.html
       #ErrorDocument 503 /unstable/unavailable.html
       ErrorDocument 503 /unstable/readonly.html
     </Location>
   </VirtualHost>

(This is setup in a VirtualHost... I'm not certain that this is a 
requirement - is that the part people are having problems with?)

In /var/www/perl:

   Symlink unstable -> /var/local/project/work/unstable

In /var/www/html:

   Symlink unstable -> ../perl/unstable/site/default

In /var/local/project/work/unstable:

   (Bibliotech code and bibliotech.conf)

Most of the GENERAL block from bibliotech.conf:

GENERAL {
   SITE_NAME = 'Connotea Dev'
   SITE_EMAIL = 'con...@na...'
   DOCROOT = '/var/www/html/unstable'
   LOCATION = 'http://xxxxx.connotea.org/unstable/'
   PREPATH = '/unstable';
   BIBUTILS_PATH = '/var/www/perl/unstable/bibutils/'
   MOD_PERL_WORKAROUND = true
   EXPLAIN_HTTP_CODES = false
   EXCEPTION_ERROR_REPORTS_TO = '**'
   DBI_CONNECT = 'dbi:mysql:connotea'
   DBI_USERNAME = 'bibliotech'
   DBI_PASSWORD = '**'
   DBI_SEARCH = 'connotea_search'
   MEMCACHED_SERVERS = [ '127.0.0.1:11211' ]
   TEMPLATE_ROOT = ''
   PID_FILE = '/var/run/httpd.pid'
   SENDMAIL = '/usr/lib/sendmail'
   USER_COOKIE_SECRET = '**'
   USER_VERIFYCODE_SECRET = '**'
   FORGOTTEN_PASSWORD_SECRET  = '**';
   CLIENT_SIDE_HTTP_CACHE = true
   TIME_ZONE_ON_DB_HOST = 'local'
   TIME_ZONE_PROVIDED = 'Europe/London'
   FRESH_VISITOR_LAZY_UPDATE = 180
   LOG_FILE = '/var/log/connotea.log'
}