Apache fails to start with Unknown DAV provider: svn? when you try to start the Apache service. Install the mod_authz_svn.so and mod_dav_svn.so modules and specify the LoadModule lines in your configuration.

There’s a few packages you might not have installed that you’ll need before php phpMyFAQ will install. On a basic, headless virtual machine, I don’t install a web server, php or databases by default. So I’ll start from there.

I moved a database over to another server and setup php and lighttpd, but authentication for my app wasn’t working.

Enabling aliases in Lighttpd is even easier than in Apache. If you want to browse your app without having to include the trailing slash, then make sure you didn’t include trailing slashes in your alias definitions (my alias.url’s above don’t have the trailing slash). Many examples show something like /doc/ => “/usr/share/doc/” but then it won’t find the index.php or index.html on its own.

Here’s my notes from trimming a little off the top of an apache server. This was just a quick chop at the default install. I haven’t looked at how the webapps are used or how many connections or the length of time per connection or anything… I’ll go back later and tweak how many threads and processes are started and used.

Lets get a running start… Make sure KeepAlive is set to ‘On’, HostnameLookups is ‘Off’ and comment out most of the modules loaded in your default Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse, other bloated distribution’s choice for default modules. Most of them you won’t need or want to have available. You’ll probably need rewrite and php, …