Re: Using rc to start a webserver

[Brian Clark <brianj@fusionwerks.com>]

Saad KADHI wrote:

 >Hello
 >
 >> I'm hoping someone can help me with starting my webserver (not Xitami) at
 >> bootup.
 >> The script that I'd use under Linux doesn't look like it'll work at all,
 >> and looking through the rc man page doesn't help much.
 >
 >you can put some shell scripting to startup the webserver @ the end of
 >/etc/rc.local or create a custom file and call it from rc.conf (there is a
 >parameter for that).

All you should have to do is edit /etc/rc.conf and remove NO beside 
httpd_flags. /etc/rc checks for NO, and starts httpd if it's not set to NO. 
To enable SSL[1] mode, just replace NO with -DSSL.

Brian

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#10.6