Antlinux

Here's an example of how to add a new user on Debian. You can use 65533 as the user ID for httpd, and 65532 as the user ID for Apache Tomcat.

The Debian Java FAQ entry on installing a Sun Java JVM on Debian has all of the gory details. Here's how I did it on Debian Etch 4.0.

• Download: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi

The basic steps for installing Tomcat are:

1. Download the tarball and unpack
2. Compile the jsvc stub. This is what starts and stops the server. Put the jsvc binary in the $TOMCAT_HOME/bin directory once you have it compiled.
3. Borrow the tomcat.sh script from the "build_apache" directory of Anlinux CVS for use in /etc/init.d

Apache Status/Info Pages

If you turn on the server-status/server-info pages, you'll get valuable info as far as how Apache is configured and what modules it has loaded.

In the main httpd.conf file, I used the Include directive to include the httpd-info.conf file that comes with Apache, and in that file, I enabled both server-status and server-info:

WARNING! The above directives will allow anyone to view your server-status/server-info pages. You can restrict who can view those pages by changing the Order/Allow directives, like this: Separate multiple entries in the Allow from line with spaces, continue long lines with a backslash (\).

Someone posted a link to a webpage that details how you can set up your own .mac server using Apache with WebDAV, instead of paying for Apple's "services".

• Download: http://www.openssl.org/source

The 'shared' statement will make OpenSSL build shared libraries. You want this (see e-mail thread at the bottom of this file).

• Download: httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
• Related pages: Creating SSL Certificates