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1README FOR THE TUX MODULE (by Sascha Schumann)
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4    This is a SAPI module for the TUX web-server by Ingo Molnar.
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6    The special thing about TUX is that it is integrated into the Linux
7    kernel and thus provides high-speed serving of static files.
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9    The web-server provides a user-space API which allows arbitrary
10    plug-ins to be made available.
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12    All requests to the PHP userspace module are currently serialized.
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14    This module is of alpha quality.  Due to incomplete APIs, HTTP
15    authentication and handling of POST requests has not been
16    implemented yet.
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18    SECURITY NOTE: PHP will happily run everything under the
19    web-root through the parser; so be careful what you put
20    there.
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22    Note that requests are served in a chroot'ed environment.
23    The initialization of PHP does not take place in the chroot'ed
24    environment, so that e.g. /usr/local/lib/php.ini is treated
25    as usual.
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27REQUIRED DOWNLOADS
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29    1. TUX
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31       http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/TUX-patches/QuickStart-TUX.txt
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33    2. PHP 4.0.x
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35       Download:
36       http://www.php.net/
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38       Snapshots from CVS:
39       http://snaps.php.net/
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42BUILD INSTRUCTIONS
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44    1. Install TUX as outlined in the QuickStart text.
45       Create /tux-modules where modules will reside.
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47    2. Prepare PHP
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49       $ cd php-*
50       $ ./configure \
51            --with-tux=/tux-modules \
52    		<further PHP options>
53       # make install
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55       You can see the list of valid PHP options by executing
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57       $ ./configure --help
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59    3. Touch a file in your web-root 'php5.tux'.  This will
60       cause requests to '/php5.tux' to be redirected to the
61       userspace module php5.tux.
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63    4. Start TUX with something like
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65       # tux -d -t 8 -r /www -m /tux-modules php5.tux
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67       (daemon mode, eight threads, web-root /www, modules in
68        /tux-modules, load php5.tux)
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70       BEFORE running this command, the kernel side of TUX has to
71       be properly setup.
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73    5. Try to access
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75           http://yourserver/php5.tux?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000
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77       It should display the PHP credits page.
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79       To access a script /foo/bar.php, use
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81           http://yourserver/php5.tux?/foo/bar.php
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83       Parameters can be appended:
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85           http://yourserver/php5.tux?/foo/bar.php&var=value
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