Apache, PHP, Perl and MySQL for Dreambox

**Devilfish** · 01:57 AM

This Tutorial is made by Edmund Schöpf

First of all I have not contributed in developing or compiling php, msql und perl for PowerPCs.
I searched for this software and found it at gamesquad.nl. As some people in the forum has been looking vor such a software and gamesquad URL is no more reachable, I decided to write this kind of instructions
I've installed and tested apache, php und perl on my Dreambox 7020.

Instructions

You can find a lot of instructions (and better then mine) on the internet, but maybe it could be helpeful for som of you.
I made the installation of the local package without understanding why. I installed apache on another Dreambox without local.tar.gz and it worked.
In order to work comfortabely you should have installed a harddisk on your dreambox.

Installation Apache

After downloading the required packeges from this site, create a temporary directory (for example /hdd/tmp)

Create a directory named "opt" and give it the rights 755 an then change to the directory created

Code:

cd /hdd; mkdir opt; chmod 755 opt; cd opt;

Extract the tar using the gzip command in opt

Code:

gzip -dc /hdd/tmp/httpd.tar.gz |tar xf -

now you can start apache

Code:

/hdd/opt/httpd/bin/apachectl start

The standard Port for this installation of apache is 8080 (see file /hdd/opt/httpd/conf/httpd.conf where you can finde a entry like: Listen 8080

To test now the freshly installed apache, create a html-file (mypage.html) and copy it to /hdd/opt/httpd/htdocs

Code:

<html>
<body>
This is my html-site on my apache
</body>
</html>

and insert on your WEB-Browser the following address:

Code:

http://ip-address-of-my-dreambox:8080/mypage.html

where ip-address-of-my-dreambox ist the IP-Address of your Dreambox (i.e. 192.168.22.70) and if all works well you will sie the messagge "This is my html-site on my apache"

Installation of PHP

unpack the php-package (we copied it to /hdd/tmp)

Code:

cd /hdd/opt/httpd

Code:

gzip -dc /hdd/tmp/apache_php.tar.gz |tar xf -

copy file httpd.conf.php on httpd.conf

Code:

cp conf/httpd.conf.php conf/httpd.conf

Make the following entries to httpd.conf in the LoadModule/AddType Section

Code:

LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so

Code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

restart apache

Code:

/hdd/opt/httpd/bin/apachectl restart

In the same way you can install perl and mysql (I did not test myqsl)

Code:

gzip -dc /hdd/tmp/perl.tar.gz |tar xf -

Code:

 
gzip -dc /hdd/tmp/mysql.tar.gz |tar xf -

==== START OPTIONAL INSTALLATION ====

Install instructions for some libs/binaries for dreambox
I recommend to use the 'cut and paste' feature to perform these steps. The are a lot of . (dots) in the commands

Download local.tar.gz and FTP to /hdd/tmp
Unpack tarfile

Code:

mkdir -p /hdd/opt
cd /hdd/opt
gzip -dc /hdd/tmp/local.tar.gz |tar xf -

Give user root a writable home directory ( for .profile ) by changing the 6th field ( : is seperator ) in /etc/passwd from / to /hdd/root. If you want to edit /etc/passwd with mc (Midnight Commander = Norton Commander clone) do the following

Code:

. /hdd/opt/local/env.sh # Don't forget dot and space
cd /etc
mc

Search in mc passwd and press edit button (F4).
exit mc (F10)

Create a .profile for root. The .profile gets executed during login.

Code:

mkdir /hdd/root
echo >/hdd/root/.profile "[ -f /hdd/opt/local/env.sh ] && . /hdd/opt/local/env.sh"

Execute .profile

Code:

. /hdd/root/.profile

# Don't forget dot and space

After performing these instructions, the user root has a .profile. In this .profile a script (/hdd/opt/local/env.sh) is called to set the right environment for all other programs downloaded from my download site. The script /hdd/opt/local/env.sh extends the PATH variable in such a way that all bin and sbin directories found in /hdd/opt/local/* are added.

==== END OPTIONAL INSTALLATION ====

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