Version 1 of Rivet - OpenBsd 4.9

PWQ Septempber 2011

I have installed Apache Rivet on openBSD. This may have been explained before but the apache email archives are not searchable so I describe here for others to reference.

Extra steps are involved due to apache running in chroot environment.

Configure options:

   ./configure --with-apache=/var/www/ --with-tcl=/usr/local/lib/tcl/tcl8.5/ 
               --with-apache-include=/home/ports/pobj/apr-1.2.11-mt/apr-1.2.11/include/ 
               --with-apache-version=1

Notes:

Get default tcl8.5 package of build from ports standard flavor. Rivet will not load into apache if threads are compiled in.
edit src/Makefile and remove -v option from rm command as it is not supported in openBSD.
makedir -p /var/www/var and create link /var/www/var/www to '..
makedir -p /var/www/usr/local/lib/tcl/tcl8.5 and copy recursive from /usr/local/lib/tcl/tcl8.5
cp other relevant libraries (such as libtcl85.so.*) to /var/www/usr/local/lib. Use ldd to find dependent libraries.

Rivet Config

Put options into /var/www/conf/modules/rivet.conf. It will be autoloaded by apache.

LoadModule rivet_module /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_rivet.so
AddType application/x-httpd-rivet .rvt
AddType application/x-rivet-tcl .tcl

AddType 'application/x-httpd-rivet;charset=utf-8' rvt

RivetServerConf ChildInitScript "package require DIO"

RivetServerConf ChildInitScript \
        "::DIO::handle Mysql DIO -user ???? -pass ???? -db ???"

RivetServerConf ChildInitScript \
        "package require Session; Session SESSION -debugMode 0"

Replace ??? with data specific to your database. This line and line following are only needed if you use sessions.

Misc

I noticed an error in the current rivet manual. The DIO command array takes its arguments in the opposite order to that shown in the manual.

There could be more changes I made, check your /var/www/logs/error_log to see messages from Rivet as to what problems are detected.

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