A module provides variety of features for apache such as security, perl and php support etc. To configure apache for additional modules you need to add LoadModule directive in httpd.conf or modules.conf file. For example you can add session management and tracking through consistent identifiers using mod_session. You need to add following entry to Apache 1.3.xx server (under Debian Linux you need to add to /etc/apache-perl/modules.conf file):

LoadModule auth_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_session.so

Please note that your Apache server must configure for Dynamic Shared Objects (DSOs). Let us assume you have downloaded the module called mymodule.c and you would like to compile and use this module, then you can use Apache apxs utility to compile and install this module:

Build and install a third-party Apache module, say mod_foo.c, into its own DSO mod_foo.so outside of the Apache source tree using apxs:

# apxs -c mymodule.c
# apxs -i -a -n mymodule mymodule.la

Then open your httpd.conf file and add mymodule using top LoadModule Directive:

# vi  httpd.conf

Append following line to server config context (this means that the directive may be used in the server configuration files (e.g., httpd.conf), but not within any or containers. It is not allowed in .htaccess files at all).

LoadModule mymodule /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mymodule.so

If you find compile and install procdure difficult to use then try Apachetoolbox utility to install your Apache modules easily. See official Apache documentation for more information.

If you are a Web developer then do not forget to check out book review of PHP Hacks Tips & Tools for Creating Dynamic Websites.

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This module help visitor to get correct content instead of error 404 – document not found and you can also omit file extension such as .pl, .php, .html etc in urls references. It attempts to correct misspellings of URLs that users might have entered, by ignoring capitalization and by allowing up to one misspelling. This must be configured on massive web hosting server by ISP and web hosting service providers so the hosting customer can take advantage of this module.

Following steps demonstrates how to activate this module under Debian GNU/Linux:

A) Open your Apache modules configuration file:
# vi /etc/apache-perl/modules.conf

B) Append following line to this file:
LoadModule speling_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_speling.so

C) Save the file.

D) This module need to be configured via httpd.conf via CheckSpelling directive. You can configure it for entire site, particular virtual host or even via .htaccess file. Open your /etc/apache-perl/httpd.conf and add followint line in server config context:

CheckSpelling on

E) Restart the apache:
# /etc/init.d/apache-perl restart

Please note that above steps are same under FreeBSD/Solaris for Apache web server except for file location i.e. httpd.conf and modules.conf. Please refer man page for more info.

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/usr/lib64/apr-1/build/libtool –silent –mode=compile gcc -prefer-pic -DLINUX =2 -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -pthread -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/apache -I/usr/include/apr-1 -I/usr/include/apache -O2 -g -Wall -DWITH_PCRE _STUDY -DMODSEC_PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT=1500 -DMODSEC_PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION=1500 – I/usr/include/apache -I/usr/include/apache -I. -I/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/httpd-2.2.17/srclib/apr/include -I/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/httpd-2.2.17/srclib/apr-util/include -I/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/httpd-2.2.17/ srclib/apr-util/xml/expat/lib -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/kerberos/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 -c -o msc_pcre.lo m sc_pcre.c && touch msc_pcre.slo
msc_pcre.c: In function ‘msc_pregcomp_ex’:
msc_pcre.c:73: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘pcre_extra’
msc_pcre.c:77: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘pcre_extra’
msc_pcre.c:98: warning: ignoring #pragma message
msc_pcre.c:119: warning: ignoring #pragma message
apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536
.
make: *** [mod_security2.la] Error 1

the solution is simple:

Copy the pcre.h from /usr/include/
TO /usr/include/apache and replace the old pcre.h (always backup)

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You can check if mod_rewrite is compiled in with Apache doing:

httpd -l | grep mod_rewrite.c

If it’s not then you should re-compile Apache.

You could also enable mod_rewrite logging:

RewriteLog “/var/log/httpd/rewrite.log”
RewriteLogLevel 9 # Maximum debug level, should be disabled on production environment

Note that this must be added on the VirtualHost or at the httpd.conf and *NOT* in the .htaccess.

After this you can check the file /var/log/httpd/rewrite.log to see what happens when you try to access an URL that should be rewritten.

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I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Preliminary Note

I’m assuming that you have a running Fedora 12 system with a working Apache2. In addition to that I assume that you have one or more web sites set up within the /var/www directory (e.g. if you use ISPConfig).

2 Installing mod_chroot

There’s no mod_chroot package for Fedora 12, therefore we must build it ourselves. First we install the prerequisites:

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

yum groupinstall 'Development Libraries'

yum install httpd-devel

Now we build mod_chroot as follows:

cd /tmp
wget http://core.segfault.pl/~hobbit/mod_chroot/dist/mod_chroot-0.5.tar.gz
tar xvfz mod_chroot-0.5.tar.gz
cd mod_chroot-0.5
apxs -cia mod_chroot.c

Then we restart Apache:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

3 Configuring Apache

I want to use the /var/www directory as the directory containing the chroot jail. Fedora’s Apache uses the PID file /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid; when Apache is chrooted to /var/www, /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid translates to /var/www/var/run/httpd/httpd.pid. Therefore we create that directory now:

mkdir -p /var/www/var/run/httpd
chown -R root:apache /var/www/var/run/httpd

Now we must tell Apache that we want to use /var/www as our chroot directory. We open /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, and right below the PidFile line, we add the line ChrootDir /var/www; also comment out the PidFile run/httpd.pid line and add the line PidFile /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid:

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

    [...]
    #
    # PidFile: The file in which the server should record its process
    # identification number when it starts.
    #
    #PidFile run/httpd.pid
    PidFile /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid
    ChrootDir /var/www
    [...]

Next we must tell our vhosts that the document root has changed (for example, a DocumentRoot /var/www translates now to DocumentRoot /). We can do this either by changing the DocumentRoot directive of each vhost, or more easier, by creating a symlink in the file system.

3.1 First Method: Changing The DocumentRoot

Let’s assume we have a vhost with DocumentRoot /var/www. We must now open the vhost configuration of that vhost and change DocumentRoot /var/www to DocumentRoot /. Accordingly, DocumentRoot /var/www/web1/web would now translate to DocumentRoot /web1/web, and so on. If you want to use this method, you must change the DocumentRoot for every single vhost.

3.2 Second Method: Creating A Symlink In the File System

This method is easier, because you have to do it only once and don’t have to modify any vhost configuration. We create a symlink pointing from /var/www/var/www to /var/www:

mkdir -p /var/www/var
cd /var/www/var
ln -s ../../ www

Finally, we have to stop Apache, delete the directory /var/run/httpd, create a symlink from /var/run/httpd to /var/www/var/run/httpd, and start it again:

/etc/init.d/httpd stop

rm -fr /var/run/httpd
ln -sf /var/www/var/run/httpd /var/run/httpd
/etc/init.d/httpd start

That’s it. You can now call your web pages as before, and they should be served without problems, as long as they are static HTML files or using mod_php.

If you are using CGI, e.g. Perl, suPHP, Ruby, etc., then you must copy the interpreter (e.g. /usr/bin/perl, /usr/sbin/suphp, etc.) to the chroot jail together with all libraries needed by the interpreter. You can find out about the required libraries with the ldd command, e.g.

ldd /usr/sbin/suphp

    [server2:/var/www/web1/log]# ldd /usr/sbin/suphp
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
    libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7e34000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7e0f000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7e03000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7cd2000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f23000)
    [server2:/var/www/web1/log]#

If you’ve copied all required files, but the page still isn’t working, you should take a look at the Apache error log. Usually it tells you where the problem is. Also read http://core.segfault.pl/~hobbit/mod_chroot/caveats.html for known problems and solutions.

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in filename.php on line xx

on your website though the database details mentioned in the configuration file are correct. In order to solve the problem, install the “php-mysql” package using yum

    # yum install php-mysql

Once installed, restart the httpd service

    # service httpd restart

To check if the package is installed properly, create a phpinfo.php file under your account with the following contents

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

and browse the phpinfo file.

http://yourdomainname.tld/phpinfo.php

You will see a separate Mysql section in the PHP information. Your website should no longer receive the “Call to undefined function” error message.

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If  you have these module installed, you need to edit your Apache configuration file locate at “/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf” file and add the following lines to it:

<Location />
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI  \
\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
</Location>

Save the file and restart the httpd service. This will compress all the files except the .gif, .jpe, .jpeg and .png files.

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1) Download and untar the package

    # wget http://pecl.php.net/get/Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz
    # tar -zxf Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz
    # cd Fileinfo-1.0.4

2) Generate the extension for compiling

# phpize

3) Configure the module

# ./configure

4) generate the install files and install it

# make # make install

5) Once done, the extension will be available under the /usr/lib64/php/modules directory.
You now need to add the extension somewhere in the php configuration file. Edit /etc/php.ini and add the following:

extension=fileinfo.so

6) Save the file and restart the webserver

# service httpd restart

To check if “fileinfo” is enabled on the server, execute:

# php -i | grep fileinfo fileinfo
fileinfo support => enabled

Alternate method

Just an FYI, the module can also be installed using the PECL command i.e.

# pecl install fileinfo

Once done, just follow steps 5 and 6 mentioned above. That’s it.

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1. First of all, install apache/httpd
   • yum install httpd
2. Make sure you apache is running. You can also type ‘http://localhost’ at your browser and apache test page should appear if your apache is running
   • /etc/init.d/httpd status
3. Make it start by default on startup
   • chkconfig httpd on
4. Edit the apache configuration to suit your need. If not sure, leave the default setting as it is
   • vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
5. Install subversion and mod_dav_svn for apache
   • yum install mod_dav_svn subversion
6. Go to subversion.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d/. Edit as below
   1. 1. This is the most basic configuration where anyone will have unrestricted access to the repos. Location is the name that will be used in the browser address bar. In this example it will be ‘http://localhost/svn/repos‘
         

         < Location /svn/repos >
         DAV svn
         SVNPath /var/www/svn/repos
         < /Location >

         (remove space before Location and /Location)

      2. This is a configuration with username and password for the client
         

         < Location /repos>
         DAV svn
         SVNPath /var/www/svn/repos
         AuthType Basic
         AuthName “Subversion repos”
         AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-conf
         Require valid-user
         < /Location >

         (remove space before Location and /Location)

   • cd /etc/httpd/conf.d/
   • vi subversion.conf
   • htpasswd -cm /etc/svn-auth-conf — This command is not needed for the first configuration. To create the first user with password
   • htpasswd -m /etc/svn-auth-conf — use this command to add another user
7. Configure your repository
   • mkdir /var/www/svn — create folder svn
   • cd /var/www/svn — change diectory to the newly created svn directory
   • svnadmin create repos — create svn repository named repos
   • chown apache.apache -R repos — change ownership of ‘repos’ to apache
   • /etc/init.d/httpd restart — restart apache
8. Open you browser and type ‘http://localhost/svn/repos‘. You can see that a page with ‘Revision 0:/’ will appear. Congratulation, you just completed the setup for svn server with http.

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Solution:

1. Create a vhost.conf file for the sub-domain

# nano /var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/subdomains/<sub-domain>/conf/vhost.conf

and add a ServerAlias entry

ServerAlias www.subdomain.domain.tld

2. Add an ‘A’ record for the ‘www’ prefix of the sub-domain from Plesk -> Domains -> <domain.tld> -> DNS Settings -> Add Record

www.subdomain.domain.tld A 1.1.1.1

3. To apply the ServerAlias changes, run the websrvmng utility

# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/websrvmng -a

4. Restart the webserver

# service httpd restart

Replace the subdomain/domain name and the 1.1.1.1 IP with the actual values.

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