From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 5 19:46: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C3714EB5 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 19:46:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA12716; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 19:44:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 19:44:30 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy To: "Scot W. Hetzel" Cc: Patrick Bihan-Faou , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/15873: New Apache_fp+php+mod_ssl-1.3.9+3.0.12+2.4.8 port. In-Reply-To: <015d01bf57ef$34afcd00$8dfee0d1@westbend.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > > To me the ideal situation would be: > > - a simple apache port (apache13) > > - a new port category (maybe) for the apache modules where I could find > > mod_ssl, mod_php, mod_frontpage, mod_xyz, etc. > > > > This way I could choose exactly the apache configuration I need/want. > > > > This is exactly why I created a "mod_dav" port as opposed to a > > "apache-mod_dav-xxx" port. It would be really great if you could do the > same > > with the mod_frontpage module. > > > As the original creator of the Apache13-fp port, it is not currently > possible to seperate the mod_frontpage module from the Apache Server. The > reason for this is the mod_frontpage requires certain patches be applied to > the Apache Server before it gets compiled. > > Mod_SSL is also in the same situation as it requires the EAPI patches to be > applied to the Apache Server. > > It is possible to come up with a one Apache Server solution, but it will > require that the FrontPage patches (patch-f?), EAPI patches, etc be applied > and compiled with the Apache port. > > Then Apache Module ports for mod_fronpage, mod_ssl can be created which > compiles these modules as DSO. > > Also, the httpd.conf needs a way for adding new DSO to it. > > HINT: NetBSD ports tree is already doing this for the mod_ssl, php* ports. Wouldn't a good way to do it be to simply implement front page extensions into the apache13+php3 port since one can select the modules and option one wants built into the server. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message