Default cherokee.conf assumes cgi and php installed, request to document and create alternative cherokee.conf

[danielniccoli]

Original author: milovand...@gmail.com (July 17, 2008 18:12:29)

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Get a fresh system, for instance debian
2. Get the required minimal dependencies: apt-get install gcc make libc6-dev
3. follow the instructions on
   http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/compiling_and_installing_unix.html
4. Try and start cherokee.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: Running website
Instead: Webserver cannot start due to missing lib-cgi.so

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
latest-svn on debian40r3

Please provide any additional information below.

Proposed solution:
1)alter
http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/compiling_and_installing_unix.html by
providing details on the minimum dependencies: (gcc make libc6-dev) and
recommended dependencies (cgi php)

2)create "shadow" cherokee.conf-minimal and describe to procedure to use
this minimal

3. create cherokee.conf.minimal by copying cherokee.conf and removing the
   sections for rule!4! and rule!99999!

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/cherokee/issues/detail?id=61

[danielniccoli]

From tah...@gmail.com on July 30, 2008 20:00:50
Cherokee comes with PHP preconfigured, but this issue is not related to that. The
setup for PHP would fail if libplugin_fastcgi was missing.

I believe this issue is related to the absence of libplugin_cgi.so which I just
managed to reproduce today.

Apparently a double "make install" correctly puts the file in place.
Working on it.

I don't think the minimal config idea will make it to the end. cherokee -r ....
uses that, but most people do like the ability of having PHP enabled out of the
box.
Documenting hoy to eliminate this support could be done, though.

[danielniccoli]

From alobbs on July 31, 2008 07:26:04
Commit r1703 should fix partially it.
Milo, does it solve the problem for you?

[danielniccoli]

From milovand...@gmail.com on July 31, 2008 16:03:23
Yes, this commit fixes the issue. I am now able to grab cherokee from svn, run
autogen.sh, then make and make install and both cherokee-admin and cherokee can be
launched without any hicks.

Great job!