[webmin-devel] Getting Webmin to run under Apache for Solaris 10 -- Creating dent in desk from banging head.

[PEOPLES, M. P (ATTSI) <mp...@at...>]

I have spent days trying to get Webmin to run under Apache, but to no
avail.  Despite attempting to follow both follow the instructions to the
letter, as well as interpret them as best I could, it doesn't work.  I'm
sure it works, because Jamie says it does, and Jamie knows what he's
talking about.  The problem is me.

I am trying to run it as a virtual server on a Solaris 10 box running
Apache 2.2.16.  I did the following:

Created a virtual server

<VirtualHost _default_:10000>

    ServerName myserver.att.com:10000

    DocumentRoot /opt/webmin

    ServerAdmin mp...@at...

    ErrorLog "/usr/apache2_2_16/logs/error_log"

    TransferLog "/usr/apache2_2_16/logs/access_log"

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/apache2_2_16/cgi-bin/"

    ScriptAlias /script-cgi-bin/ "/usr/apache2_2_16/htdocs/scripts/"

    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile "/usr/apache2_2_16/conf/myserver.crt"
    SSLCertificateKeyFile "/usr/apache2_2_16/conf/myserver.key"
    SSLCACertificateFile "/usr/apache2_2_16/conf/myserver.CA.root.crt"
    SSLCACertificateFile
"/usr/apache2_2_16/conf/myserver.intermediate.crt"

    <FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
        SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
    </FilesMatch>

    <Directory "/usr/apache2_2_16/cgi-bin">
        SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
    </Directory>

    BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

    CustomLog "/usr/apache2_2_16/logs/ssl_request_log"           "%t %h
%{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"

    <Directory "/opt/webmin">
        allow from all
        Options +Indexes
        AuthName Webmin
        AuthType basic
        AuthUserFile /etc/webmin/htusers
        require valid-user
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Added AddHandler directive to MAIN Apache configuration section

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

Added index.cgi directive to MAIN Apache configuration section

DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi

Added the following directives to MAIN Apache configuration section

		SetEnv WEBMIN_CONFIG /etc/webmin
		SetEnv WEBMIN_VAR /var/webmin
		SetEnv SERVER_ROOT /opt/webmin
		SetEnv MINISERV_CONFIG /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

Added the following directives to MAIN Apache configuration section

    <Directory "/opt/webmin">
        allow from all
        Options +Indexes
        AuthName Webmin
        AuthType basic
        AuthUserFile /etc/webmin/htusers
        require valid-user
    </Directory>


/etc/webmin/htusers file setup

Again, it's not clear what is being requested here.  I created a file
with each of the users in it, one to a line, like the following:

		root
		user1
		user2

I also tried using htpasswd to create a file called /etc/webmin/htusers,
but that also did not change things.

To be frank, I'm not sure what should be in this file.  Explicit
examples would be helpful.

Ran the ownership and permission attribute change commands

		chown -R root:root /opt/webmin
		chmod -R 6755 /opt/webmin 

>From directory /opt/webmin, ran the following command

find . -name "*.cgi" -o -name "*.pl" | perl perlpath.pl "/usr/bin/perl
-U" -

Configure Webmin to use the 'Default Webmin Theme'

There's nothing I could do here.  The only theme I have is the "blue"
theme.  There is nothing in the Webmin Solaris package that might be
considered a "default theme".

I also tried it putting all (or most) of the above within the virtual
host definition: 

<VirtualHost _default_:10000>

    ServerName myserver.att.com:10000

    DocumentRoot /opt/webmin

    ServerAdmin mp...@at...

    ErrorLog "/usr/apache2_2_16/logs/error_log"

    TransferLog "/usr/apache2_2_16/logs/access_log"

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/apache2_2_16/cgi-bin/"

    ScriptAlias /script-cgi-bin/ "/usr/apache2_2_16/htdocs/scripts/"

    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile "/usr/apache2_2_16/conf/myserver.crt"
    SSLCertificateKeyFile "/usr/apache2_2_16/conf/myserver.key"
    SSLCACertificateFile "/usr/apache2_2_16/conf/myserver.CA.root.crt"
    SSLCACertificateFile
"/usr/apache2_2_16/conf/myserver.intermediate.crt"

    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

    <FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
        SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
    </FilesMatch>

    <Directory "/usr/apache2_2_16/cgi-bin">
        SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
    </Directory>

    BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

    CustomLog "/usr/apache2_2_16/logs/ssl_request_log"           "%t %h
%{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"

    <Directory "/opt/webmin">
        allow from all
        Options +Indexes
        AuthName Webmin
        AuthType basic
        AuthUserFile /etc/webmin/htusers
        require valid-user
    </Directory>

    SetEnv WEBMIN_CONFIG "/etc/webmin"
    SetEnv WEBMIN_VAR "/var/webmin"
    SetEnv SERVER_ROOT "/opt/webmin"
    SetEnv MINISERV_CONFIG "/etc/webmin/miniserv.conf"
</VirtualHost>

I restarted Apache after each change, but never got the Webmin site or
any error messages even referring to it.  Nothing was listening on port
10000.

I also tried the "Apache In A Sub-Directory" method, but it didn't work.

If I fire up Webmin as I normally would, it works.  I just can't get it
to work under Apache.

Sorry for the long e-mail, but thanks for any help anyone can offer.

Michael Peoples
Senior Systems Manager
AT&T - ATTSI
Office:            614-789-8559
Cell:    614-886-0923
FAX:   614-789-8975
mpe...@at...

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