Contrib-CGI

The CGI back-end server gets passed requests for CGI scripts that come into the front-ends.

Nonbasic Debian Packages Installed

Note: dependencies are not necessarily included here. Installing the enumerated packages should pull all those in too.

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• Apache
  • apache2-mpm-prefork
  • apache2-prefork-dev
  • libapache2-mod-pubcookie (club package; none exists in debian [yet?])
  • libapache2-mod-auth-kerb (club package; not really used on contrib-cgi, but why not)
• PHP4
  • php4
  • php4-cgi
  • php4-cli
  • php4-common
  • php4-curl
  • php4-dev
  • php4-gd
  • php4-imagick
  • php4-ldap
  • php4-mysql
  • php4-pgsql
• PHP5
  • php5
  • php5-cgi
  • php5-cli
  • php5-common
  • php5-curl
  • php5-dev
  • php5-gd
  • php5-imagick
  • php5-ldap
  • php5-mysql
  • php5-pgsql
• Other scripting langs
  • python
  • ruby
• Packages for perl modules installed (not including their dependencies):
  • libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl (Crypt::PasswdMD5)
  • libdbd-mysql-perl (DBD::mysql)
  • libdbd-pg-perl (DBD::pg)
  • libdbi-perl (DBI)
  • libwww-perl (LWP)
  • libcrypt-ssleay-perl (Crypt::SSLeay)
  • libgd-gd2-perl (GD)
  • libnet-ldap-perl (Net::LDAP)
  • libarchive-zip-perl (Archive::Zip)
  • libhtml-template-perl (HTML::Template)
• Other nonstandard packages installed:
  • acl (extended POSIX ACLs)
• Other useful things not likely necessary for operation
  • mysql-client
  • postgresql-client
  • gs

Setup Procedure

• Install packages
• apache - debian package
  • configs in /etc/apache2
  • various files in /var/apache
• mod_auth_kerb (cclub) - installed but not really used on contrib-cgi
• pubcookie debs (cclub)
  • /var/pubcookie
• suexec

  • right now, divert debian suexec & copy in our own patched version from apache collections

    • dpkg-divert --divert /usr/lib/apache2/suexec.apache --rename /usr/lib/apache2/suexec
  • could make this into a deb someday
• multilog for apache
  • symlink /var/apache/logs/apache* to /var/service
  • mess with djbdaemon foo as necessary
• cwscript collection
  • put cron/contrib_{user,cgi_user}_update.sh in cron
• add mycontrib to /etc/passwd.system
• binfmt
  • /var/lib/binfmts
• php
  • dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/php4-cli --rename /usr/bin/php4
  • dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/php5-cli --rename /usr/bin/php5
  • cd /usr/bin
  • ln -s php4-cgi php4
  • ln -s php5-cgi php5