[SLUG] Apache probs - Invalid command 'Alias', perhaps mis-spelled

[Michael Lake <Mike.Lake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

Mike wrote...
> I just had to upgrade a apache on Debian as it was complaining that a module
> was missing an info file and without it it woulnt restart apache.
> (it was Error: mod_auth_mysql.so does not have a corresponding .info file.)
> This meant that I had to upgrade a few packages due to dependencies e.g. a
> newer mod_auth_mysql required a newer libapache-mod-perl. Now I have more
> probs.
..... snipped the rest ....

The problem was many and varied. For a start a Debian upgrade some time ago 
had added the following lines to my httpd conf file: 

# Please keep this LoadModule: line here, it is needed for installation.
Include /etc/apache-perl/modules.conf
Include /etc/apache/modules.conf

Mistake!: I'm running apache-perl and not apache and it was including two module.conf 
files which were slightly different. Thats why I was getting errors like 
"module config_log_module is already loaded, skipping"
I commented out the include for /etc/apache/modules.conf and restarted apache-perl.

I also needed to manually add "LoadModule auth_mysql_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_auth_mysql.so"
to the modules.conf file cause for some reason "/usr/sbin/apache-modconf apache-perl" updated 
modules.conf but didn't add the required line.

Then I just got the errors about: 
Invalid command 'AuthMySQLCryptedPasswords', perhaps mis-spelled .....
I had had this for 4 years in httpd.conf:

      AuthType Basic
      AuthMySQLCryptedPasswords On
      AuthMySQLHost 
      AuthMySQLUser
      AuthMySQLUserTable 
      AuthMySQLNameField 
      AuthMySQLPasswordField 

But now it seems the interface has changed. Even Crypt has changed to Encrypted!
I found in /usr/lib/apache/1.3/500mod_auth_mysql.info the list of valid directives.
I then renamed each one above to the ones below one by one until apache-perl-ctl configtest
didn't complain anymore:

      AuthType Basic
      AuthMySQL_Encrypted_Passwords On
      AuthMySQL_Host 
      AuthMySQL_User
      AuthMySQL_Password_Table 
      AuthMySQL_UserName_Field 
      AuthMySQL_Password_Field 

And bingo apache-perl then started fine.

I really need a course in Debian System Administration.

Mike
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