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Apache for MPE/iX

Major Components

Access to the manual documents is speciﬁed with the URL,

http://yourserver.com/manual/index.html, where

“yourserver.com” is the name of your HP 3000.

Hardware Requirements

The following are estimates for hardware resources required for an

Apache installation.

• 32 MB of memory (64 MB recommended for machines with high

trafﬁc)

• 25 MB Disk Space (Apache directories and ﬁles + log ﬁles)

• Additional disk space for your documents.

The 25 MB of disk space would be used approximately in the following

way:

• 5 MB for Apache and its assorted static ﬁles

• 10 MB for the access log (about 100,000 requests)

• 10 MB for the error log (about 100,000 errors)

If you are using less than the recommended disk space for the log ﬁles,

you may want to monitor their size. Each request or error message is

about 100 bytes and both logs, but especially the access log, can grow

quite large. Each request to the web server creates one entry in the

access log.

Steps for Starting Apache

To start the Apache web server:

1. Prepare your system for network access.

2. Copy and edit the conﬁguration ﬁle.

3. Edit the JHTTPD job stream ﬁle.

4. Start the HTTPD web server program.

5. Verify that the HTTPD web server is running.

Prepare Your HP 3000 for Network Access

Before your HP3000 can act as a web server, it must be available for

network access via TCP/IP. In preparation, you should:

• Conﬁgure TCP/IP on your system

• Have a domain name associated with your system’s IP address

Apache communicates on the network using the HTTP Hypertext

Transfer Protocol which, in turn, uses TCP/IP. NS Transport (the