[clue] [Tech] Apache apxs

[chris fedde]

Yeah. It gets to be a bit of a pain to integrate new stuff when the
box you are working on starts carrying such a load.   And by then it's
too late to work out a better way of managing the complexity.   About
the only path to follow is to make a second system and start
populating it to be a replacement for the current primary.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com> wrote:
> I agree compiling Apache isn't that big of a deal, but I currently have
> this machine wearing many different hats:
>
> 1) Mail server.
> 2) Standard Apache box with multiple apache vhosts.
> 3) Subversion box, via Apache of course.
> 4) Bind server.
> 5) Samba LAN file server.
>
> Upgrading this machine will take some careful planning :) I currently have
> the following installed:
>
> [root at server ~]# rpm -qa | grep httpd
> httpd-suexec-2.0.52-47.ent.centos4
> httpd-2.0.52-47.ent.centos4
> httpd-devel-2.0.52-47.ent.centos4
> system-config-httpd-1.3.1-1
> httpd-manual-2.0.52-47.ent.centos4
>
> I'm bummed that I can't figure out a way around this without recompiling,
> because having updated versions of software delivered automagically with
> update commands is much easier than compiling an update everytime Apache
> puts one out, which is more often than I would like to worry about it.
>
>> Your distro probably has the DSO support and perhaps a -dev version of
>> the package available.   As an aside, if this system is just the proxy
>> then it might be simpler to use an os that has the mod you want.
>>
>> And it's not that big a deal to build and compile Apache yourself.
>> Once you have decided to deploy one kind of built from source package
>> the second is not nearly as hard as the first one was.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com> wrote:
>>> I'm trying to set up a reverse proxy server, and I've found that some of
>>> the URLs we run through it use static vs relative links to things like
>>> images and videos. Thankfully, there is a cool new apache module called
>>> mod_proxy_html which scans the HTML source and can replace various
>>> strings
>>> for you. The config is easy enough and looks cool. The problem is that
>>> I'm
>>> on CentOS 4 still, and this module is not built in. So, I downloaded it
>>> and tried to compile it in:
>>>
>>> [root at server ~]# wget
>>> http://apache.webthing.com/mod_proxy_html/mod_proxy_html.zip
>>> --14:38:02--
>>>  http://apache.webthing.com/mod_proxy_html/mod_proxy_html.zip
>>>           => `mod_proxy_html.zip'
>>> Resolving apache.webthing.com... 209.20.83.52
>>> Connecting to apache.webthing.com|209.20.83.52|:80... connected.
>>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>>> Length: 27,934 (27K) [application/zip]
>>>
>>> 100%[================================================================>]
>>> 27,934       120.53K/s
>>>
>>> 14:38:03 (120.13 KB/s) - `mod_proxy_html.zip' saved [27934/27934]
>>>
>>> [root at server ~]# unzip mod_proxy_html.zip
>>> Archive:  mod_proxy_html.zip
>>>   creating: mod_proxy_html/
>>>  inflating: mod_proxy_html/mod_xml2enc.c
>>>  inflating: mod_proxy_html/README
>>>  inflating: mod_proxy_html/proxy_html.conf
>>>  inflating: mod_proxy_html/mod_proxy_html.c
>>>  inflating: mod_proxy_html/mod_xml2enc.h
>>>  inflating: mod_proxy_html/COPYING
>>> [root at server ~]# /home/httpd/bin/apxs -c -I /usr/include/libxml2/ -I .
>>> -i
>>> mod_proxy_html.c
>>> apxs:Error: Sorry, no DSO support for Apache available
>>> apxs:Error: under your platform. Make sure the Apache
>>> apxs:Error: module mod_so is compiled into your server
>>> apxs:Error: binary `/home/httpd/bin/httpd'.
>>>
>>> Doh. My stock version of apache has no DSO support. Besides compiling
>>> Apache from scratch myself on this machine, what are my options to
>>> enable
>>> mod-so on this bad boy?
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