Using Apache With Novell NetWare
This document explains how to install, configure and run Apache 2.0 under Novell NetWare 6.0 and above. If you find any bugs, or wish to contribute in other ways, please use our bug reporting page.
The bug reporting page and dev-httpd mailing list are not provided to answer questions about configuration or running Apache. Before you submit a bug report or request, first consult this document, the Frequently Asked Questions page and the other relevant documentation topics. If you still have a question or problem, post it to the novell.devsup.webserver newsgroup, where many Apache users are more than willing to answer new and obscure questions about using Apache on NetWare.
Most of this document assumes that you are installing Apache from a binary distribution. If you want to compile Apache yourself (possibly to help with development, or to track down bugs), see the section on Compiling Apache for NetWare below.
NetWare Libraries for C (LibC).
NetWare service packs are available here.
Apache 2.0 for NetWare can also be run in a NetWare 5.1 environment as long as the latest service pack or the latest version of the NetWare Libraries for C (LibC) has been installed . WARNING: Apache 2.0 for NetWare has not been targeted for or tested in this environment.
http://www.apache.org/. This will list the current release, any more recent alpha or beta-test releases, together with details of mirror web and anonymous ftp sites. Binary builds of the latest releases of Apache 2.0 for NetWare can be downloaded from here.
ServerRoot和ServerName
along with any file path values
to reflect your correct server settings
SYS:/APACHE2
to the search path, for example:
SEARCH ADD SYS:\APACHE2
Follow these steps to install Apache on NetWare manually
from your own build source (assuming you will install to
sys:/apache2
):
- Create a directory called
Apache2
on a NetWare volume - Copy
APACHE2.NLM
,APRLIB.NLM
toSYS:/APACHE2
- Create a directory under
SYS:/APACHE2
calledBIN
- Copy
HTDIGEST.NLM
,HTPASSWD.NLM
,HTDBM.NLM
,LOGRES.NLM
,ROTLOGS.NLM
toSYS:/APACHE2/BIN
- Create a directory under
SYS:/APACHE2
calledCONF
- Copy the
HTTPD-STD.CONF
file to theSYS:/APACHE2/CONF
directory and rename toHTTPD.CONF
- Copy the
MIME.TYPES
,CHARSET.CONV
和MAGIC
files toSYS:/APACHE2/CONF
directory - Copy all files and subdirectories in
\HTTPD-2.0\DOCS\ICONS
toSYS:/APACHE2/ICONS
- Copy all files and subdirectories in
\HTTPD-2.0\DOCS\MANUAL
toSYS:/APACHE2/MANUAL
- Copy all files and subdirectories in
\HTTPD-2.0\DOCS\ERROR
toSYS:/APACHE2/ERROR
- Copy all files and subdirectories in
\HTTPD-2.0\DOCS\DOCROOT
toSYS:/APACHE2/HTDOCS
- Create the directory
SYS:/APACHE2/LOGS
on the server - Create the directory
SYS:/APACHE2/CGI-BIN
on the server - Create the directory
SYS:/APACHE2/MODULES
and copy all nlm modules into themodules
directory - Edit the
HTTPD.CONF
file searching for all@@Value@@
markers and replacing them with the appropriate setting - Add
SYS:/APACHE2
to the search path, for example:SEARCH ADD SYS:\APACHE2
Apache may be installed to other volumes besides the default SYS
volume.
During the build process, adding the keyword "install" to the makefile command line
will automatically produce a complete distribution package under the subdirectory
DIST
. Install Apache by simply copying the distribution that was produced
by the makfiles to the root of a NetWare volume (see: Compiling Apache for
NetWare below).
Listen
directive in the configuration files).
To connect to the server and access the default page,
launch a browser and enter the server's name or address. This
should respond with a welcome page, and a link to the Apache
manual. If nothing happens or you get an error, look in the
error_log
file in the logs
directory.
Once your basic installation is working, you should
configure it properly by editing the files in the
conf
directory.
To unload Apache running in the OS address space just type the following at the console:
unload apache2
或
apache2 shutdown
If apache is running in a protected address space specify the address space in the unload statement:
unload address space = apache2 apache2
When working with Apache it is important to know how it will find the configuration files. You can specify a configuration file on the command line in two ways:
-
-f
specifies a path to a particular configuration file
apache2 -f "vol:/my server/conf/my.conf"
apache -f test/test.conf
In these cases, the proper ServerRoot
should be set in the configuration file.
If you don't specify a configuration file name with -f
,
Apache will use the file name compiled into the server, usually
conf/httpd.conf
. Invoking Apache with the -V
switch will display this value labeled as SERVER_CONFIG_FILE
.
Apache will then determine its ServerRoot
by trying the following, in this order:
- A
ServerRoot
directive via a-C
switch. - The
-d
switch on the command line. - Current working directory
- The server root compiled into the server.
The server root compiled into the server is usually sys:/apache2
.
invoking apache with the -V
switch will display this value labeled as
HTTPD_ROOT
.
Apache 2.0 for NetWare includes a set of command line directives that can
be used to modify or display information about the running instance of the
web server. These directives are only available while Apache is running. Each
of these directives must be preceded by the keyword APACHE2
.
- RESTART
- Instructs Apache to terminate all running worker threads as they become idle, reread the configuration file and restart each worker thread based on the new configuration.
- VERSION
- Displays version information about the currently running instance of Apache.
- MODULES
- Displays a list of loaded modules both built-in and external.
- DIRECTIVES
- Displays a list of all available directives.
- SETTINGS
- Enables or disables the thread status display on the console. When enabled, the state of each running threads is displayed on the Apache console screen.
- SHUTDOWN
- Terminates the running instance of the Apache web server.
- HELP
- Describes each of the runtime directives.
By default these directives are issued against the instance of Apache running in the OS address space. To issue a directive against a specific instance running in a protected address space, include the -p parameter along with the name of the address space. For more information type "apache2 Help" on the command line.
Apache documentation for all the available directives.
The main differences in Apache for NetWare are:
-
Because Apache for NetWare is multithreaded, it does not use a separate process for each request, as Apache does on some Unix implementations. Instead there are only threads running: a parent thread, and multiple child or worker threads which handle the requests.
Therefore the "process"-management directives are different:
MaxRequestsPerChild
- Like the Unix directive, this controls how many requests a worker thread will serve before exiting. The recommended default,MaxRequestsPerChild 0
, causes the thread to continue servicing request indefinitely. It is recommended on NetWare, unless there is some specific reason, that this directive always remain set to0
.StartThreads
- This directive tells the server how many threads it should start initially. The recommended default isStartThreads 50
.MinSpareThreads
- This directive instructs the server to spawn additional worker threads if the number of idle threads ever falls below this value. The recommended default isMinSpareThreads 10
.MaxSpareThreads
- This directive instructs the server to begin terminating worker threads if the number of idle threads ever exceeds this value. The recommended default isMaxSpareThreads 100
.MaxThreads
- This directive limits the total number of work threads to a maximum value. The recommended default isThreadsPerChild 250
.ThreadStackSize
- This directive tells the server what size of stack to use for the individual worker thread. The recommended default isThreadStackSize 65536
. -
The directives that accept filenames as arguments must use NetWare filenames instead of Unix names. However, because Apache uses Unix-style names internally, forward slashes must be used rather than backslashes. It is recommended that all rooted file paths begin with a volume name. If omitted, Apache will assume the
SYS:
volume which may not be correct. -
Apache for NetWare has the ability to load modules at runtime, without recompiling the server. If Apache is compiled normally, it will install a number of optional modules in the
\Apache2\modules
directory. To activate these, or other modules, theLoadModule
directive must be used. For example, to active the status module, use the following:LoadModule status_module modules/status.nlm
Information on creating loadable modules is also available.
CGIMapExtension -
This directive maps a CGI file extension to a script interpreter.
-
SecureListen
-
Enables SSL encryption for a specified port.
-
NWSSLTrustedCerts
-
Adds trusted certificates that are used to create secure connections to proxied servers.
-
NWSSLUpgradeable
-
Allow a connection created on the specified address/port to be upgraded to an SSL connection.
SecureListen
-
Enables SSL encryption for a specified port.NWSSLTrustedCerts
-
Adds trusted certificates that are used to create secure connections to proxied servers.NWSSLUpgradeable
-
Allow a connection created on the specified address/port to be upgraded to an SSL connection.NetWare PDK 3.0 or higher.
awk.exe
.mod_nw_ssl to provide SSL services. This module simply enables the native SSL services implemented in NetWare OS to handle all encryption for a given port. Alternatively, mod_ssl can also be used in the same manner as on other platforms.
Before mod_ssl can be built for the NetWare platform, the OpenSSL libraries must be provided. This can be done through the following steps:
- Download the latest NetWare patch for OpenSSL from the OpenSSL Contribution page.
- Download the corresponding OpenSSL source code from the OpenSSL Source page.
- At the root of the OpenSSL source directory, apply the NetWare
patch using the "patch" utility, for example:
patch -p 1 -i netwarepatch-0.9.7g.diff
- Edit the file
NetWare/set_env.bat
and modify any tools and utilities paths so that they correspond to your build environment. - From the root of the OpenSSL source directory, run the following
scripts:
Netware/set_env netware-libc
Netware/build netware-libc - Before building Apache, set the environment variable
OSSLSDK
to the full path to the root of the openssl source code directory.Set OSSLSDK=d:\openssl-0.9.7x