Following are instructions for installing apache and mod_perl by compiling them from source for a back-end MKDoc server and using Apache 2.x as a front facing proxy.
Compiling Apache 1.3.x from source is generally needed for MKDoc (Apache 2.x which comes with many GNU/Linux distros is not suitable), see the mod_perl site for more details.
See the alternative instructions for running Apache 1.3.x without a Apache 2.x proxy.
The latest apache 1.3.x can be downloaded from here: http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
The latest mod_perl from here: http://perl.apache.org/download/
wget http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.apache.org/httpd/apache_1.3.37.tar.gz wget http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/apache_1.3.37.tar.gz.asc wget http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz wget http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz.asc
gpg --keyserver=wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-key 08C975E5 gpg --verify apache_1.3.37.tar.gz.asc gpg --keyserver=wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-key 88C3A5A5 gpg --verify mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz.asc
tar -zxvf apache_1.3.37.tar.gz tar -zxvf mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz
Make and install mod_perl with mod_gzip and apache:
cd mod_perl-1.29 perl Makefile.PL APACHE_SRC=../apache_1.3.37/src \ DO_HTTPD=1 EVERYTHING=1 USE_APACI=1 make make test sudo make install cd ../apache_1.3.37 sudo make install
This should simply be a matter of adding this line to the end of the /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf file:
NameVirtualHost *
And then after this the MKDoc include line, see the MKDoc INSTALL document for this.
Apache can now be started, it will run on port 8080 by default if you complied it as a user other than root (this is fine if you are using Apache 2.x as a front facing proxy):
sudo /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
And if you want it to start after a reboot you can add this to /etc/rc.local (sourcing the mksetenv.sh script is essential for MKDoc to work properly and you chould change the path to where ever you have MKDoc installed):
source /var/mkdoc/mksetenv.sh sudo /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
Or you could use the following script that has been tested on Fedora Core 5 (it assumes Apache is installed in /usr/local/apache and that MKDoc is in /usr/local/mkdoc-1-6 — edit it to suit):
cd /usr/local/apache/bin ln -s httpd apache wget http://www.mkdoc.org.archived.website/docs/howto/apache/apache.txt sudo mv apache.txt /etc/init.d/apache sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/apache sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add apache sudo /etc/init.d/apache start sudo /sbin/chkconfig apache on
If you want the Apache 2.x that comes with your distro to remain installed then one way to do this is to run the MKDoc Apache on a high port such as 8080 and use mod_rewrite to send requests on port 80 there.
Note that is has advantages: the ‘front-end’ Apache 2.x deals with slow-clients and can perform content compression and encryption, this leaves the ‘backend’ Apache 1.3.x as a dedicated mod_perl server. This backend doesn't need to be compiled with mod_ssl or mod_gzip.
This is an example conf file that could be dropped into /etc/httpd/conf.d/ on a Fedora / Red Hat distro:
# Editor: vim:syn=apache
#
# the mkdoc apache is in /usr/local/apache
# and the site is in /var/mkdoc/sites/example.org
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.org
ServerAlias example.org
ServerAlias users.example.org
ServerAdmin admin@example.org
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^users\.
RewriteRule /?(.*) http://users.example.org:8080/$1 [P,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.
RewriteRule /?(.*) http://www.example.org:8080/$1 [P,L]
RewriteRule /?(.*) http://www.example.org/$1 [R=permanent,L]
ErrorLog logs/example.org-error_log
CustomLog logs/example.org-access_log combined
</VirtualHost>
If you drop this file into the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory as deflate.conf then the front end Apache 2.x will do compression:
# Editor: vim:syn=apache # # mod deflate <Location /> # More info: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html # # Insert filter SetOutputFilter DEFLATE # # Netscape 4.x has some problems... BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html # # Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip # # MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html # NOTE: Due to a bug in mod_setenvif up to Apache 2.0.48 # the above regex won't work. You can use the following # workaround to get the desired effect: # BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html # # Don't compress images or PDFs SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \ \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png|pdf)$ no-gzip dont-vary # # Don't compress compressed data SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \ \.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$ no-gzip dont-vary # # Don't compress compressed music, mp3's and ogg SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \ \.(?:mp3|ogg)$ no-gzip dont-vary # # Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary </Location>