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The
Plan
9
web
server
<a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/httpd"><i>httpd</i>(8)</a>
has
some
interesting
features.
It
also
kept
me
scratching
my
head
all
day
getting
it
going
so
I
thought
I'd
share
a
few
things.
<p class='para'>
When
the
httpd
runs
it
sets
itself
to
user
"none"
and
runs
<a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/newns"><i>newns</i>(2)</a>
and
then
<a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/addns"><i>addns</i>(2)</a>
using
the
namespace
provided
on
the
command
line
(or
/lib/namespace.httpd
if
you
didn't
give
it
a
-n).
This
means
that
whatever
you
supply
for
the
namespace
file
has
to
exist
in
the
new
namespace.
ip/httpd/httpd
-n
/cfg/$sysname/namespace.httpd
was
my
solution.
</p>
<p class='para'>
While
experimenting
I
had
the
problem
of
how
to
kill
a
process
owned
by
none,
here's
how
to
do
it
:
</p>
<pre>
p = `{ps | grep httpd}
chmod 777 /proc/$p(2) ^/note && echo kill > /proc/$p(2) ^/note
</pre>
<p class='para'>
I'm
assuming
only
one
program
called
httpd
is
running,
of
course.
</p>
<p class='para'>
For
extra
fun
ip/httpd/mirror
was
missing
from
my
distribution
(Sept
07)
and
I
didn't
notice
for
ages.
</p>
<p class='para'>
momo
here
is
a
Unix
box
running
u9fs
-a
none
and
I'm
using
a
terminal
to
play
on
so
termrc
it
is
</p>
<p class='para'>
cat
/cfg/$sysname/termrc
</p>
<pre>
fn start_httpd {
rfork
bind /n/momo/home/plan9/httpd /usr
bind /usr/httpd.rewrite /sys/lib/httpd.rewrite
ip/httpd/httpd -n /cfg/$sysname/namespace.httpd
}
9fs momo
start_httpd &
</pre>
<p class='para'>
The
folder
/n/momo/home/plan9/httpd
has
in
it
:
</p>
<pre>
bin/
web/
httpd.rewrite
</pre>
<p class='para'>
cat
/cfg/$sysname/namespace.httpd
</p>
<pre>
mount /srv/momo /n/momo
bind /n/momo/home/plan9/httpd/bin /bin/ip/httpd
</pre>
<p class='para'>
So
now
my
/magic/
files
are
kept
on
momo
so
I
don't
pollute
/bin/ip/httpd
</p>
<p class='para'>
I
also
found
a
bug
with
vhosts
and
submitted
a
<a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/patch"><i>patch</i>(1)</a>
httpd-post-port
because
vhosts
running
on
non-default
port
were
impossible
as
the
:port
was
being
stripped
when
the
vhosts
were
parsed
but
not
when
matching
http
requests.
Leaving
the
:port
on
is
the
correct
behaviour
according
to
RFC
2616
14.23.
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