compile lua on windows

Posted on by mario

Grab the “newest” (2008) http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.4.tar.gz
unpack it. Compiling with VC++ is very easy.

Open the x64 %comspec% /E:ON /V:ON /T:0E /K “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0\Bin\SetEnv.cmd” /Release
or x86 command line
%comspec% /k “”C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat”” x86

browse to lua folder and run

etc\luavs
copy /y src\*.* .\

Done!

build mod_geoip

Posted on by mario

Obtain GeoIP-1.4.6 from maxmind.com and built per included instructions.
Build Module against an IPv6 Enabled Apache Build

Obtain GeoIP-1.4.6 from maxmind.com and built per included instructions.
Build Module against an IPv6 Enabled Apache Build

del *.obj *.exp *.lib *.so
set APACHE=C:\Apache22
set GEOIPROOT=C:\Build\GeoIP-1.4.6
cl  /nologo /MD /O2 /LD /W3 -DWIN32 -D_WIN32 -I%GEOIPROOT%\libGeoIP -I%APACHE%\include /c /Fomod_geoip.obj mod_geoip.c
link /NODEFAULTLIB:LIBCMT kernel32.lib "%APACHE%\lib\libhttpd.lib" "%APACHE%\lib\libapr-1.lib" "%APACHE%\lib\libaprutil-1.lib" "%GEOIPROOT%\libGeoIP\GeoIP.lib" /nologo /subsystem:windows /dll /machine:I386 /out:mod_geoip.so mod_geoip.obj

patch requires admin privileges on Windows 7

Posted on by mario

The patch.exe requires admin privileges on Windows 7. This is pretty annoying! The first thing that worked was just renaming the file to pach.exe Stupid windows. But I didn’t like that cause than I mostly typed it wrong and patch command was missing. I found a better solution:

Create a text file in the same directory with the name patch.exe.manifest

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
 <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
 <security>
 <requestedPrivileges>
 <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker"/>
 </requestedPrivileges>
 </security>
 </trustInfo>
</assembly>

Save as UTF8. Now it works. Well I have to test if it is possible to embedd the manifest than good bye $%&# asking for admin permission

Giving mod_logrotate a signature

Posted on by mario

This is my first trial giving a third party module a signature.

--- mod_log_rotate.c.orig    2008-07-24 13:17:45.000000000 +0200
+++ mod_log_rotate.c    2010-11-21 02:31:43.123503300 +0100
@@ -399,6 +399,19 @@
 return add;
 }
 
+/* map into the first apache */
+static int log_rotate_post_config( apr_pool_t * p, apr_pool_t * plog, apr_pool_t * ptemp, server_rec * s)
+{
+    ap_add_version_component(p, "mod_log_rotate/1.00");
+    return OK;
+}
+
+static void log_rotate_register_hooks(apr_pool_t *p)
+{
+    ap_hook_post_config( log_rotate_post_config,   NULL, NULL, APR_HOOK_MIDDLE );
+}
+
+
 module AP_MODULE_DECLARE_DATA log_rotate_module = {
 STANDARD20_MODULE_STUFF,
 NULL,                       /* create per-dir config */
@@ -406,6 +419,6 @@
 make_log_options,           /* server config */
 merge_log_options,          /* merge server config */
 rotate_log_cmds,            /* command apr_table_t */
-    NULL                        /* register hooks */
+    log_rotate_register_hooks   /* register hooks */
 };

reverse proxy for utorrent part 2

Posted on by mario

In my last post about utorrent (µtorrent) I was frustrated that I wasn’t able to change the url from /gui/ to /tor/
Woot! In apache 2.3 which will be apache 2.4 and I think it will be released in early 2011 the proxy module is much better and there it works to have a different URL :-) Even as ALPHA or BETA version the new apache rocks a lot and runs stable. In condition with mod_fcgid it is real cool technology e.g. running PHP separated form apache that allows to run different PHP version of the server in vhosts or directories. Also running a non thread safe PHP version. Speed! IPv6 would be fine, but the offered patches are not applied to trunk :-/There is an annoying bug in mod_fcgid. I’m glad I found a fix for it (help from Tom Donovan and Sob).