Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:40:09 -0700 From: Don Wilde <Don@PartsNow.com> To: Christophe Prevotaux <nighty@hexanet.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache 1.2b8 Message-ID: <3357DC29.25AC@PartsNow.com> References: <3.0.32.19970418213541.0068f7dc@mail.hexanet.fr>
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Having just gone through the painful process of moving Apache to another server, I can point you to a few places where the answer might lie: First, make sure your .conf files are correct for where DocumentRoot and ServerRoot are. The new Apache will most likely have overwritten all of your .conf files with its standard ones; you will have to merge your changes -- specifically directory access authorizations and enabling functions -- to reflect your specific site structure. Hope you made copies of the old ones that worked! Second possible gotcha is if your CGI programmer added his own Perl password test code in one of the generically included modules. This covers a security hole in the .htaccess scheme, and is Good. Make surew he didn't hard code the directories into the Perl code. Next, make sure all your scripts point to the right directories. Use lots of GREPs and "perl5 -pi.bak -e s#/some/old/dir/#/some/new/dir/loc/# *" to eradicate old directory pointers. Lastly, make sure the crypt routines are the same. MD5 and DES do not produce the same passwords. I haven't yet done 1.2b8, I myself am waiting for 1.3 to come off beta. If somebody manages to blitz my site in the meantime, I have another live server I can just change the name and IP on. There may be other surprizes, but I would doubt it's compilation that causes your grief. It's far more likely the .conf files or the directories. Finally, besides Apache.org, the http://www.hwg.org has a hwg-servers mailing list you can subscribe to which covers Apache configuration constantly. As an aside to the FreeBSD group, I would suggest that we add a link there to the FreeBSD resources pages, as this question (and others of like topic) are better addressed there. Bon appetite pour les electrons du Internet, monsieur! -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo
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