This page describes how to run your own apache HTTP daemon, for example if you have special needs regarding apache modules etc.

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I have an apache instance with mod_python running for
http://www.siebengang.net/ .

== Apache setup and startup ==
Get a working apache/mod_python installation (in your home dir), and
set up a startup procedure, so that cron starts your daemon when
mire reboots. Take a cron job like

{{{
@reboot   run-in-pagsh --fg ~/apache2/bin/apachectl start
}}}

as a starting point.

=== Port issues ===
Your httpd must be configured so that it
listens on a dedicated port, the standard port 80 won't work. There
used to be a hcoop procedure to get access to a free port.

Right. On Fyodor, we used to have a firewall setup where it was
necessary to request a port for yourself so you can bind to it.

We *currently* do not have this restriction on Mire, but plans for
re-using the same firewall setup we had are underway.

So please use the Members Portal to submit a Port request on page
https://members.hcoop.net/portal/ip , so that when we enable the
firewall and binding restrictions, we automatically leave the
ports open for you.

I got 8880 (and 8881 for another httpd) and have this in my httpd.conf:

{{{
Listen 8880
}}}

=== mod_python specials ===
I just discovered the following lines in my httpd.conf, too. I think
they are necessary for mod_python to function properly (my
mod_python and some more modules are installed in ~/python/mod_python):

{{{
<IfModule mod_python.c>
    PythonPath "sys.path + ['/afs/hcoop.net/user/b/be/beni/python']"
</IfModule
}}}

== domtool config ==
Next you need "port forwarding" of http requests for your domain to
your own httpd (so that you don't need to use addresses like
http://www.siebengang.net:8880/index.html, but
http://www.siebengang.net/index.html gets "mapped" to port 8880). In
the domtool setup for me this looks like

{{{
domain "siebengang.net" with
  (* NS/DNS/Mail stuff omitted *)
    web "www" with
    proxyPass "/" "http://localhost:8880/";
    proxyPassReverse "/" "http://localhost:8880/";
  end;
end;
}}}

That should be about all you need...

== AFS problem ==
You may be interested in an AFS related problem I have encountered
and not been able to solve yet:
https://bugzilla.hcoop.net/show_bug.cgi?id=291