11-Mar-2006

Moved the system
to boot from the shared disk. Well, it already did but the problem I still had was starting the new Apache version and keep all webs intact. Solving this required a minor adaption to the new Apache configuration file: I just copied all the virtual hosts from the 1.3 config file to the new (2.1) one, added the VMS authentication module and moved the includes for SSL, PHP, Perl and Tomcat to the right position - just in front of the virtual hosts.
Restarted it: Et voila!

Even better: Tomcat does start in batch! Great improvement.

The only thing that's now wrong is that specifying Diana as a host will cause the Apache page to show up, in stead of the normal entry. But that is just a minor issue - just removing the default DocumentRoot.

Another thing is that links to ScriptAlias'd directories seem to require a ".COM" extension. It broke both YAHMAIL and soyMail beta. Again, this is minor and can surely be solved in the configuration script.

This took about an hour, in all. Not bad.

Tested some issues with soymail that I had reported: mainly, the inability to upload files. That went Ok with this Apache version, it might be it's just an Apache 1.3 problem.

So far so good. Leave the system as it is now, and go on tomorrow!