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authorMatteo Bernardini <ponce@slackbuilds.org>2012-09-08 09:10:52 +0200
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2012-09-08 17:27:21 -0500
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network/cherokee: Updated for version 1.2.101.
Also forced /var/log/cherokee and run with a dedicated user, various cleanups and additions to the README. Signed-off-by: Matteo Bernardini <ponce@slackbuilds.org>
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@@ -18,13 +18,15 @@ If need to get popular web applications working or fine tune your
server, follow the cherokee's cookbooks page:
* http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/cookbook.html
+ffmpeg is an optional dependency (for video streaming - BROKEN ATM).
+
Notes about using this SlackBuild
---------------------------------
1) To specify the WWW root directory pass WWWROOT=/path/to/www/root
to the script, like this:
- WWWROOT=/var/www ./cherokee.SlackBuild
+ WWWROOT=/var/www/htdocs-cherokee ./cherokee.SlackBuild
2) If you want to enable IPv6 support, pass IPV6=yes to the script.
3) If you want to disable the Cherokee-admin installation, pass
@@ -35,9 +37,27 @@ Notes about using this SlackBuild
to the script.
5) If you want to build Cherokee with debugging options, enable trace
facility by passing TRACE=yes to the script.
+6) The $WWWGROUP group and the $WWWUSER user account are set to cherokee.
+ To run cherokee as a different user/group specify them passing the
+ options WWWUSER/WWWGROUP to the slackbuild, like
+
+ WWWUSER=cherokee WWWGROUP=cherokee ./cherokee.SlackBuild
+
+ You want to create first a dedicated user/group.
+
+ groupadd -g 299 cherokee
+ useradd -u 299 -g cherokee -d /var/www/htdocs-cherokee cherokee
+
+ See http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt for current reccomendations (if any)
+7) If you want to use it with php, remember to add your user to the
+ apache group, so that it can use /var/lib/php, like
+
+ gpasswd -a cherokee apache
Comments, suggestions or bug reports
------------------------------------
-If you have anything to say about this SlackBuild, event reporting a
+If you have anything to say about this SlackBuild, even reporting a
bug, don't hesitate to contact me at pablosaro@gmail.com
+(be aware that pablo might not know that I wrecked his build
+script for 1.2.101, ndponce <matteo.bernardini@gmail.com>)