Mail::Toaster::Apache - modules for installing, configuring and managing Apache

Modules for working with Apache. Some are specific to Mail Toaster while most are generic, such as provisioning vhosts for an Apache 2 server. Using just these subs, Apache will be installed, SSL certs generated, and serving.

Perl methods for working with Apache. See METHODS.

new

   use Mail::Toaster;
   use Mail::Toaster::Apache
   my $log = Mail::Toaster->new(debug=>0)
   my $apache = Mail::Toaster::Apache->new( 'log' => $log );

use this function to create a new apache object. From there you can use all the functions included in this document.

Each method expect to recieve one or two hashrefs. The first hashref must have a value set for <i>vhost</i> and optional values set for the following: ip, serveralias serveradmin, documentroot, redirect, ssl, sslcert, sslkey, cgi, customlog, customerror.

The second hashref is key/value pairs from sysadmin.conf. See that file for details of what options you can set there to influence the behavior of these methods..

InstallApache1

	$apache->install_apache1(src=>"/usr/local/src")

Builds Apache from sources with DSO for all but mod_perl which must be compiled statically in order to work at all.

Will build Apache in the directory as shown. After compile, the script will show you a few options for testing and completing the installation.

Also installs mod_php4 and mod_ssl.

install_2

	use Mail::Toaster::Apache;
	my $apache = new Mail::Toaster::Apache;

	$apache->install_2($conf);

Builds Apache from sources with DSO for all modules. Also installs mod_perl2 and mod_php4.

Currently tested on FreeBSD and Mac OS X. On FreeBSD, the chosen version of php is installed. It installs both the PHP cli and mod_php Apache module. This is done because the SpamAssassin + SQL module requires pear-DB and the pear-DB port thinks it needs the lang/php port installed. There are other ports which also have this requirement so it's best to just have it installed.

This script also builds default SSL certificates, based on your preferences in openssl.cnf (usually in /etc/ssl) and makes a few tweaks to your httpd.conf (for using PHP & perl scripts).

Values in $conf are set in toaster-watcher.conf. Please refer to that file to see how you can influence your Apache build.

apache_conf_patch

	$apache->apache_conf_patch(conf=>$conf);

Patch apache's default httpd.conf file. See the patch in contrib of Mail::Toaster to see what changes are being made.

install_ssl_certs

Builds and installs SSL certificates in the locations that Apache expects to find them. This allows me to build a SSL enabled web server with a minimal amount of human interaction.

install_rsa_cert

Builds and installs a RSA certificate.

	$apache->install_rsa_cert(crtdir=>$crtdir, keydir=>$keydir);

restart

Restarts Apache.

On FreeBSD, we use the rc.d script if it's available because it's smarter than apachectl. Under some instances, sending apache a restart signal will cause it to crash and not restart. The control script sends it a TERM, waits until it has done so, then starts it back up.

    $apache->restart($vals);

install_dsa_cert

Builds and installs a DSA Certificate.

Mail::Toaster - http://mail-toaster.org/

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The following are all man/perldoc pages:

 Mail::Toaster 
 Mail::Toaster::Conf
 toaster.conf
 toaster-watcher.conf

 http://matt.simerson.net/computing/mail/toaster/

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