[Info-vax] OSU and Itanium

[Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply]

In article <0065b0b4$0$26938$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, Mark Daniel
<mark.daniel at wasd.vsm.com.au> writes: 

> Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
> > In article <00659e00$0$26903$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, Mark Daniel
> > <mark.daniel at wasd.vsm.com.au> writes: 
> > 
> >> I have built the OSU package 3-10A without errors using HP C V7.3-018 on 
> >> OpenVMS IA64 V8.3-1H1 and HP TCP/IP Services V5.6 - ECO 2 on an HP rx2600.
> > 
> > IIRC, you need 3.11 for Itanium.
> 
> I grabbed the 3-10A fresh from
> 
>    http://www.ecr6.ohio-state.edu/www/doc/serverinfo.html

Note that the URL

   http://er6ad3.ecr6.ohio-state.edu/soft/http_server_3-11.zip

exists (analog to the URL
http://er6ad3.ecr6.ohio-state.edu/soft/http_server_3-10a.zip) but 
apparently there is no link to it.

I'll suggest to Dave that he put a link to it.

He made some changes to get it to run on Itanium, at least partly as a 
result of some requests I made from work.  Maybe he wants to keep 3.11 
from becoming official until more people have tested it.

We've been using it at work for several months now (maybe more than a 
year) and have no problems with it.  It was essentially just compile, 
link and go.  I recommend defining WWW_SYSTEM to be a search list, the 
second translation being the default WWW_ROOT:[SYSTEM] and the first 
your personal directory, in which you place copies of files from 
WWW_ROOT:[SYSTEM] before modifying them.  Several advantages: it is 
clear what you have modified, it is easier to run more than one 
architecture in a cluster, it is clear what files you might need to 
modify when setting up the server somewhere else (different usernames in 
the .prot files, different disk names if you need PASS rules for certain 
special directories etc).

For a while now, we have also been running the server on several ports.
It wasn't obvious (to me) how to set it up, but once one knows what to
do, it is really easy.