This binary release of httpd 3.0 is provided by SCO as a Technical Library Supplement (TLS). The httpd software was written by Ari Luotonen, Henrik Frystyk, Tim Berners-Lee. Source code and complete online documentation is freely available from W3C:
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Daemon/TO INSTALL THIS SUPPLEMENT, extract the cpio archive as user 'root' from any directory:
# cpio -idum -I ARCHIVEwhere "ARCHIVE" is the filename of the cpio archive or the device node where the archive can be found (e.g. /tmp/tls070.cpio, or /dev/install).
Kamal A. Mostafa <kamalm@sco.com>, SCO Product Development, January 24, 1995
As provided, the /var/opt/cern_httpd/htdocs symbolic-link points to a sample document directory containing one "Welcome" document.
In order to allow the server to provide access to your own direc- tory of documents, you must replace that symbolic-link with one which points to your own public directory. To do so, execute these commands as user 'root':
# cd /var/opt/cern_httpd # rm htdocs # ln -s /your/pub/dir htdocsUsers of SCO's Global Access 1.0 product may wish to form a symbolic-link which points to their existing public directory (e.g. /var/opt/httpd/htdocs).
Alternately, advanced users may wish to configure different direc- tories in the httpd.conf file.
# /opt/cern_httpd/bin/cern_httpd [ -v ]Normally, the server will place itself into the background after starting up, returning you to a prompt. The optional -v argument forces the server to run in the foreground and provide verbose debugging output. See the online documentation at W3C for more information about other command-line options.
Note that if you are already running any httpd daemon on port 80 (e.g. from Global Access 1.0), you will need to kill the httpd process before starting up httpd on port 80.
You may wish have the server start up automatically at boot-time. To do so, add a script to the /etc/rc2.d directory (or modify an existing 'http' script) to run the command-line above (without the -v option).
/var/opt/cern_httpd/httpd.confIn order to use certain features of the server (proxy, caching), you must make changes this file, but it is provided "ready to use" for basic configurations.
See the online documentation at W3C for information about con- figuring the server. Also note that the original example config- uration files from the httpd 3.0 distribution are available in the directory /opt/cern_httpd/sample-config. See the README file in that directory for more details.
/var/opt/cern_httpd/logsThe default configuration provided has logging enabled, so be sure to clean out the logs periodically.