Hi guys,
Sorry for this absurdly late reply but I believe that I have some
information that hasn't been mentioned. I believe that this information is
correct, but I haven't the best track record. Still, I read the Apple docs
on this and it works on my system.
The Web Sharing Preferences
Bill,
I understand your concerns. However, I have a different viewpoint:
Indeed, if you decide to use PHP/Apache installed via Fink, you are
not able to use the system supplied ones. However, the "solution" you
propose, namely to break the Fink policy and modiyf the Apple
versions of those di
At 22:29 Uhr + 27.03.2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 09:15 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
>
>>The fink installed apache doesn't support OS X's out of the box
>>'Web Sharing' feature. This is problematic.
>>
>>It means that if one wants to use Fink to install various a
I can understand the desire to follow the packaging guidelines as
completely as possible, but this feels like it is a case that might
warrant a violation.
The current situation with apache is this (random thoughts):
If you install apache via Fink, you break a significant chunk of very
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 09:15 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
> The fink installed apache doesn't support OS X's out of the box 'Web
> Sharing' feature. This is problematic.
>
> It means that if one wants to use Fink to install various apache
> related features, one loses a significant chu
There are two pieces; the start/stop functionality triggered by the
button in the Sharing prefs pane and the actual configuration.
The button works as you describe, I believe-- just a wrapper around
apachectl.
The configuration piece is more complex, but not hugely so. Look at the
configura
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
> The fink installed apache doesn't support OS X's out of the box 'Web
> Sharing' feature. This is problematic.
Does anyone know how this feature works in the first place? It looks like
it's just a gui wrapper around (maybe) the builtin apachectl comm
The fink installed apache doesn't support OS X's out of the box 'Web
Sharing' feature. This is problematic.
It means that if one wants to use Fink to install various apache related
features, one loses a significant chunk of OS X related functionality.
b.bum
