From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 10 18:43:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018E416A4DD for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:43:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james@netinertia.co.uk) Received: from starbug.netinertia.co.uk (starbug.netinertia.co.uk [217.147.82.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9113643D46 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:43:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@netinertia.co.uk) Received: from croydon.netinertia.co.uk ([82.69.247.45] helo=[10.1.0.83]) by starbug.netinertia.co.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1G00lN-000Kxt-Pn; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:45:48 +0100 Message-ID: <44B29F92.2080009@netinertia.co.uk> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:42:26 +0100 From: James O'Gorman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Greenwood References: <11419abd0607101116h5ac8bc5dk82e9cabebb1b4cd9@mail.gmail.com> <3ee9ca710607101124x3d4b060x1e41bdd00c3694a0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3ee9ca710607101124x3d4b060x1e41bdd00c3694a0@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NetI-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mihir Sanghavi Subject: Re: Writing application X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:43:08 -0000 [Moving from stable@ to ports@] Andy Greenwood wrote: > cd /usr/ports/www/apache13 && make install clean > > should install apache and all it's dependancies for you. As for > writing your applications, I can't even begin to help without more > info. Perhaps you should search for information on your programming > language of choice. You can write your application in any folder you > want, but a likely place might be either your home directory or a > subdirectory of your apache's document root (depending on the > application's...uh...application) which defaults to > /usr/local/www/data-dist/ Uhm, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't /ust/local/www/data-dist exactly what it says on the tin? i.e. it may be clobbered by uninstalling or upgrading. > On 7/10/06, Mihir Sanghavi wrote: >> Hi, >> I have installed freeBSD 5.5 and am connected to the net now. I would >> like >> to install apache and devlop some application from there. How should i >> start >> writing my application, execute it. I even make to figure out what >> folder to >> write application and how to deal with it. Thank you >> >> -- >> What we see depends mainly on what we look for. >> -MIHIR