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Static compile of openssl, apache, mod_ssl and php

As of this writing, the latest versions were:

  • apache_1.3.41
  • php-4.4.8
  • openssl-0.9.8g
  • mod_ssl-2.8.31-1.3.41

Once the files are downloaded and extracted; config, compile and install in the below order:

  1. Install openssl:
    $ ./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl
    $ make
    # make install
  2. mod_ssl patch:
    $ ./configure \
    --with-ssl=../openssl-0.9.8g \
    --with-apache=../apache_1.3.41
  3. Pre-configure apache:
    $ ./configure
  4. Install php:
    $ ./configure \
    --with-gd \
    --with-jpeg-dir \
    --with-png-dir \
    --with-zlib-dir \
    --with-freetype \
    --with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib \
    --enable-gd-native-ttf \
    --enable-memory-limit \
    --with-ldap \
    --with-mysql \
    --with-apache=../apache_1.3.41
    $ make
    # make install
  5. Install apache
    $ SSL_BASE=../openssl-0.9.8g \
    ./configure \
    --prefix=/usr/local/apache \
    --enable-module=rewrite \
    --enable-module=so \
    --activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a \
    --enable-module=ssl

Static apache-1.3.x and php-4.x compile for dotProject

  1. Download and unpackage the source files:
    $ cd /usr/local/src
    $ wget http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/apache/httpd/apache_1.3.41.tar.gz
    $ wget http://us2.php.net/get/php-4.4.8.tar.gz/from/us.php.net/mirror
    $ tar -xvzf apache_1.3.41.tar.gz
    $ tar -xvzf php-4.4.8.tar.gz
  2. Preconfigure apache:
    $ cd apache_1.3.41
    $ make clean
    $ ./configure
  3. Configure, compile, install php:
    $ cd ../php-4.4.8
    $ make clean
    $ ./configure \
    --with-gd \
    --with-jpeg-dir \
    --with-png-dir \
    --with-zlib-dir \
    --with-freetype \
    --with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib \
    --enable-gd-native-ttf \
    --enable-memory-limit \
    --with-ldap \
    --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
    --with-apache=../apache_1.3.41
    $ make
    # make install
  4. Configure, compile, install apache:
    $ ./configure \
    --prefix=/usr/local/apache \
    --enable-module=rewrite \
    --enable-module=so \
    --activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a
    $ make
    # make install

Auto restart apache on segmentation fault error

Recently a particular folder in a site started coming up with blank php pages and the root cause being Segmentation fault after memory exhaustion. The subfolder contents would only come up after doing a restart of apache.

So something tried to access a region of memory that it did not have rights to. May be due to either bad RAM, or a code problem.

My first instinct was eAccelerator as I had done a recent php update and had not re-compiled it.

I still had the same issue the next day and bumped up the memory_limit from 16M to 32M in php.ini and from 32M to 64M in eaccelerator.ini .

Generating Apache SSL Self-Signed Certificate

# openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key -out /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt -days 9999 -nodes
# chown root:root /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key
# chmod 400 /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key

Installing Bugzilla on an ISPConfig site

These are some notes I had taken down during the installation of Bugzilla on a server with ISPConfig hosting control panel:

Requirements:

# yum install mysql-devel gd-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel freetype-devel libdbm-devel
# rpm -e mod_perl #else mod_perl2 does not install.

Create Site:

Site was created via the ISPConfig control panel with "web6_bugs" as the admin user and "web6" as the group.

Install:

$ cd /var/www/web6
$ wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/webtools/bugzilla-3.0.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf buzilla-3.0.tar.gz
$ mv buzilla-3.0/* web
$ ./checksetup.pl --check-modules
# perl -MCPAN -e 'install AppConfig' #had to force install.
# perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Bugzilla'
# perl -MCPAN -e 'install GD'  #requires libpng-devel, libjpeg-devel, freetype-devel
$ ./checksetup.pl #Edit the localcofig with the correct database settings.
$ ./checksetup.pl #Re-run anytime if needed, specifically if the file permissions are not correct.
$ chgrp -R apache . #Had to make all files belong to the apache group after re-running checksetup.pl .

Apache with mod_perl need the below directives in httpd.conf:

    PerlSwitches -I/var/www/web6/web -w -T
    PerlConfigRequire /var/www/web6/web/mod_perl.pl

Runs a lot faster, but is a memory hog. Suggested to turn off KeepAlive in apache when running mod_perl.

Crontab Entry:

# Bugzilla
5 0 * * * web6_bugs cd /var/www/web6/web; ./collectstats.pl
55 0 * * * web6_bugs cd /var/www/web6/web; ./whineatnews.pl
*/45 * * * * web6_bugs cd /var/www/web6/web; ./whine.pl

Static compile and install of apache + mod_ssl + php on FC4

Latest Compile with pdo drivers for mysql along with mod_security.

NOTE:
Remove the MySQL-shared rpm else openssl will not work.

# rpm -e MySQL-shared-5.0.20a-0.glibc23

LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql PHP) Configuration

The acronym LAMP refers to a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers

Linux, the operating system;

Apache, the Web server;

MySQL, the database management system (or database server)

Perl, PHP, and/or Python, scripting languages

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