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Re: Validator install on Linux (Slackware)

Hello Olivier On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 10:27 am, you wrote: > Welcome! Thanks for the welcome :-) > > I've just successfully completed a local installation of the release > > version of the Validator running under Apache on Linux (Slackware 8.1). > > Excellent. Did you run into any kind of problem? No problems really. It was just took a bit of time to figure out what to do with the various downloads from the Validator source page, and then watching the web server error log to figure out what I'd got wrong. But someone more familiar with the Validator might well want to improve on my setup. > > I made notes on the installation process, and if these are likely to be > > of any help to anyone else I'd be pleased to supply them (just a plain > > text file at the moment). > [snip] > If you could post it to the list, I am certain it would be very useful. > If you don't mind, I would actually like to include it into the > validator's documentation. If these are any use, you are welcome to use them in any way, but as I said I am a newbie on this so there may be better ways of doing things, and as this is running on a firewalled intranet I've not really looked at the security of this setup. Anyway with that said, here are the notes I made ... W3C Validator installation -------------------------- These are brief installation notes based on installing the Validator code onto a Linux system (based on Slackware 8.1) with Apache 1.3.x These notes assume: - you know how to configure a new virtual web site in Apache, and will be installing the Validator files in the document root of the new site. - you do not need instructions on obtaining and installing Perl modules. Your need: - The W3C Validator source tarball and the DTDs tarball (validator.tar.gz and sgml-lib.tar.gz) from the W3C Validator site - The OpenSP SGML/MXL Parser - Apache 1.3.x - Perl with the modules shown below Preparation ----------- Obtain the OpenSP source tarball from http://openjade.sourceforge.net Once you've unpacked the source, the install process is the standard ./configure make make install Install (or update if necessary) the following Perl modules in this order... CGI.pm HTML-Tagset HTML-Parser MIME-Base64 URI libnet Digest-MD5 libwww-perl Set-InstSpan Text-Iconv Installing the Validator ------------------------ Create a new virtual website. Unpack the Validator tarball to a temporary directory, then... - Move all the files and subdirectories from [tempdir]/validator/htdocs to the document root of the virtual site - Move all the files from [tempdir]/validator/httpd/cgi-bin to the document root of the virtual site - Copy the uncommented lines in [tempdir]/validator/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to wherever you have the Apache configuration for the virtual website, adapting all the directory references to reflect the paths used in your installation. Restart the web server to activate the updated configuration. Unpack the DTDs tarball sgml-lib.tar.gz to a suitable location such as /usr/local/validator Copy all the .cfg files from the [document root]/config directory in the document root to a new subdirectory of /usr/local/validator called config Copy header.html and footer.html from [document root] to a new subdirectory of /usr/local/validator called htdocs Make the directory /etc/w3c and create a file called validator.conf using the file [document root]/config/check.cfg as template. This file is well commented. Make changes to reflect where files are in your installation. You can now delete the [document root]/config and [tempdir] directories. Check it out! ------------- Point your browser at the new virtual site. Check the error log of the webserver to get clues on what may be wrong if you get any server errors. HTH - Nick -- Nick Talbott, Powys County Council (UK) IT Policy and Strategy Manager/Rheolwr Polisi a Chynllunio TGCh email: nickt@xxxxxxxxxxxx fax: 01597 824781 web: www.powys.gov.uk and www.powysweb.co.uk

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Tip Of The Day leads to inaccessable page: Error 403

Hi, I (successfully) verified a page with validator.w3.org and wanted to follow the "The of The Day" link. It is titled "Use international date format" and refers to http://www.w3.org/2001/06tips/iso-date but I get an Error 403 there. The Error page talks about ACLs, so I suspect something is misconfigured there. It would be nice if someone could send me an e-mail if the problem is solved. Please excuse me if this is not the right address to report this problem to, but I don't want to spend hours to find the right one. Yours sincerely, Mike Dornberger

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Validator install on Linux (Slackware)

Dear list [newbie post] I've just successfully completed a local installation of the release version of the Validator running under Apache on Linux (Slackware 8.1). The Validator source page asks for feedback on successful installs, so here is is! I made notes on the installation process, and if these are likely to be of any help to anyone else I'd be pleased to supply them (just a plain text file at the moment). Regards - Nick -- Nick Talbott, Powys County Council (UK) IT Policy and Strategy Manager/Rheolwr Polisi a Chynllunio TGCh email: nickt@xxxxxxxxxxxx fax: 01597 824781 web: www.powys.gov.uk and www.powysweb.co.uk

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Tip Of The Day leads to inaccessable page: Error 403

Hi, I (successfully) verified a page with validator.w3.org and wanted to follow the "The of The Day" link. It is titled "Use international date format" and refers to http://www.w3.org/2001/06tips/iso-date but I get an Error 403 there. The Error page talks about ACLs, so I suspect something is misconfigured there. It would be nice if someone could send me an e-mail if the problem is solved. Please excuse me if this is not the right address to report this problem to, but I don't want to spend hours to find the right one. Yours sincerely, Mike Dornberger