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   <TITLE>Using Safari with Apache</TITLE>
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<H1 ALIGN="CENTER">Using Safari with Apache</H1>
<P ALIGN="CENTER"><I>Note: this is very preliminary. More to come</I></P>
<A NAME="Introduction"></A><H2>1.0 Introduction</H2>
<P>Safari is a cgi-bin script and may be run under a wide variety
of web servers. It is, however, being developed under
Apache, mod_perl, and Linux 2.2.9. This all-too-scanty page
describes the particulars of using it in that environment.

<A NAME="Apache_Config"></A><H2>Apache Configuration</H2>

<P>If your Apache is built with mod_perl,  then
the following entries in your httpd.conf (or equivalent) file might
be close to what you need:

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#
# Optional, but a nice way to allow for other mod_perl scripts.
#
Alias /mod-perl/ &quot;/your/httpd/dir/mod-perl/&quot;

&lt;Location /mod-perl&gt;
    #AllowOverride None
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler Apache::Registry
    Options ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
    PerlSendHeader On
&lt;/Location&gt;

#
# Make a nice top level URL to hang all safari projects under.
#
Alias /safari "/home/barries/src/safari/test/httpd/mod-perl/cgimake"

&lt;Location /safari&gt;
    #AllowOverride None
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler Apache::Registry
    Options ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
    PerlSendHeader On
&lt;/Location&gt;


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#	Change	User	Description
#4	178	Barrie Slaymaker	Modified cgimake to get the project name out of the target name if one isn't supplied. This makes it so that Apache's mod_rewrite is no longer needed to extract the project name from the URL and place it in the QUERY_STRING, and so that you can call cgimake from the command line and place the project name in the target path: cgimake /perl/_head/Default/depot/ Modified cgimake to work easily from the command line Fixed some minor bugs in assembling paths that were causing // to appear in paths when no project is specified. Fixed minor bug that cause cgimake to try to read a bogus config file when there is no $project Tweaked p4_get to provide a more reasonable level of verbosity. Updated the apache doc to reflect the simpler, non-rewrite technique. Added targets to fetch a new _head revision if the head change number has changed. Need to check in p4_update.
#3	168	Barrie Slaymaker	Added YAPC paper, slides
#2	165	Barrie Slaymaker	Applied Greg KH's license patch.
#1	162	Barrie Slaymaker	First code & documentation checkin