[Sunhelp] Help for Apache

[Robert.Cross at scottish-newcastle.co.uk]

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shivrajyadav at hotmail.com wrote:
>i want to configure Apache web server on our Sparc Server 1000 (solaris 
>2.6). Being a newbie i don't have any idea how to go about it. I've 
>downloaded apache from its site (tar format) on our intel (windows) machine 
>& then transferred it to our Sparc machine. but everytime i do tar xvf , i 
>get directory checksum error.... i've tried to download atleast 5 times & 
>everytime i have got the same error.

A couple of things occur:
1. Are you downloading via a web browser? If so, stop and try using an ftp
client instead, I use SmartFTP (free at www.smartftp.com) on my PC. I've 
had similar problems with M$ IE as sometimes it seems to
default to ascii download which messes up gzip'd tar archives. You could always
use Netscape, which seems a little better in this respect.

2. I guess that you're downloading binaries, since you don't mention anything
about compiling code. Have you tried the copy in www.sunfreeware.com, this
might not be up to the absolutely latest version, but at least you'd have a 
copy?
I'm using Apache on AIX (IBM Unix) at the moment and that was downloaded from
www.apache.org/... to a PC as source and then compiled locally, (mainly because 
I wanted a few
extra modules included, suExec, Perl, etc.).

3. Configuring is pretty easy, just have a look at conf/httpd.conf, you should 
be
able to get away with just editing in local hostname and one or two other 
values.
Shouldn't take more than about five minutes and then its all systems go.

Hope this helps.

Bob Cross.


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