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- Install Apache, make sure it runs.
Note: We ran into difficulites on some Apache 2.x installation, specifically on RedHat Linux 8.0 and 9.0.
The symptoms are a high load (25+) and resulting unreponsiveness. We haven't found the cause for this yet
(we suspect a perl library), but we recommend downgrading to Apache 1.3.x.
- Install and LoadModule mod_perl.
- Optionally, and only if you already run mod_rewrite on the same (virtual) server,
add the following lines to your httpd.conf:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/freecache.cgi(.*) /cgi-bin/freecache.cgi$1 [NS,L]
- Install Perl, and the following perl modules: HTTP, LWP, Digest, POSIX.
Example:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTTP'
- Download freecache.cgi into your cgi-bin directory.
- Create one or more directories for freecache files, e.g. /var/freecache.
Having mutiple cache directories only makes sense if they are on different partitions
or drives.
- Edit the User Configuration section freecache.cgi:
- Correct the path to perl if necessary:
#!/usr/bin/perl
- Change the freecache admin password.
- Change the webmaster's e-mail address. We will use this address only
to contact if there is a problem with your installation and to inform
you about major new versions that you should upgrade to.
- Change the file system path of the cache directories.
- Change the cache directories' maximum sizes.
- Optionally, change the logging level.
- Optionally, restrict the range of IP addresses you prefer to serve.
- Start or stop freecache.cgi with
http://your.site/path/freecache.cgi
Please check if the displayed IP# is routable (not 127.0.0.1
or 192.168.x.x etc.), and if the hostname is a Fully
Qualified Domain Name (not localhost.localdomain).
You need a static, routable IP# for your freecache.cgi to work.
If you don't have a Fully Qualified Domain Name, use the IP# instead.
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