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                This update took a bit longer than I expected

[You know these round tuits have been sitting on your desk for many years
now, right? —Editor / I … um … erm … —Sean] [1]

I once mentioned updating mod_litbook [2] to run under a later version of
Apache [3]. I wanted to do that because I've been running two instances of
Apache—a later version that reverse proxies back to Apache 1.3 which just
runs mod_litbook and nothing else, just to save me the agony of porting the
code at the time. It only took me twelve years to locate the round tuit on my
desk, but hey, better late than never.

I did do a mod_lua version of mod_litbook [4] first, based on the version
running on my Gemini server [5]. With that (twelve years after I first played
with mod_lua [6]) and two hours of time, I was able to match the output from
the original version [7] (nice!). But it should be easy to update the actual
mod_litbook source code to the latest version of Apache [8], right?

Right?

Yeah, kind of. it took two days, but I got it updated. I wasted the better
part of a few hours trying to follow the instructions in the modules/examples
directory which turns out to be laughably out of date. Once I found the
proper guide [9] things went much more smoothly—mostly function name changes
and removing calls to obsolete functions. I also decided to go ahead and use
the Apache Portable Runtime [10] API (Application Programming Interface)
instead of standard C functions as long as I was updating the code.

Now I just have to install the latest version of Apache on my server.

Just.

Yeah.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2020/02/26/tuit.png
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2010/04/03.1
[3] https://httpd.apache.org/
[4] https://github.com/spc476/mod_litbook
[5] gemini://gemini.conman.org/
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2010/04/06.3
[7] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Revelation.1:8
[8] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
[9] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/developer/modguide.html
[10] https://apr.apache.org/

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