Re: OpenBSD as a Webserver?

[Mark Pecaut <mark_(_at_)_pecaut_(_dot_)_us>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:15:01PM +0100, Mark Schmid wrote:
> Now to my current understanding, that spells t-r-o-u-b-l-e
> with OpenBSD. Why? Apache is chrooted and don't work

PHP and MySQL work fine in a chroot.  I don't know where you
read that it doesn't.  Search the archives.  Do your homework
before you post.
 
> But lo: NO info on PHP and MySQL with Apache's chroot in 
> the books I got, NO ready packages or ports which contain 
> PHP or MySQL which work flawlessly with Apache's chroot 
> out-of-the-box (or not documented and thus not findable), NO 
> info on the OpenBSD website about this, hardly NO info or 
> tutorials (good usable ones that are up to date... -I only 
> found 1 (one)) in the internet AND, what is rather shocking 
> to me: NO interest by the devs of OpenBSD!!!
> (I got this impression quite strongly by asking Theo de Raadt
> in a personal email.)

Be very careful here - OpenBSD has the best documentation of
any Operating system I have ever used.  The developers work
hard to make it complete and clear.  

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot

Read the Faq.  Read the man pages.  Read them again.

Just pkg_add the php4 and mysql-server packages.  Figure out
how to put the mysql socket in the chroot (ie, under 
/var/www/).  That's it.

With PHP and mysql, the chroot breaks using sendmail.  That's
about it.  Just use pear's mailer.

-Mark