Re: Does any kind soul know how to get speedtest.net mini working with apache on netbsd?

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jason Mitchell <jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> On 03/17/2011 08:05 AM, matthew sporleder wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Jason 
>> Mitchell<jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>    I'm trying to get the Speedtest.net mini app
>>> (http://www.speedtest.net/mini.php) running on a netbsd box running
>>> 4.0.1. I just installed apache22 and the download portion of the test
>>> works fine, but the upload hangs. There's a file, troubleshooting.txt
>>> which says:
>>>
>>> ***********************************
>>> *** Apache using PHP ***
>>> Apache on some distributions disallow POST requests over 512K. This will
>>> cause the upload portion of the test to
>>> hang on faster connections.
>>>
>>> To correct this problem:
>>>  - Open php.conf or php.ini
>>>  - Find LimitRequestBody and remove that line
>>>  - Restart Apache (/etc/init.d/httpd restart)
>>>
>>> ***********************************
>>>
>>> I can't find php.ini. I've run in to the same problem on Ubuntu
>>> as well, so I think the speedtest.net documentation is out of date, but
>>> I don't know what else to change. The test uses flash and is available
>>> here:
>>>
>>> (snip)
>>
>> Look for your php.ini in /usr/pkg/etc
>>
> By default there's no php.ini created when you install Apache. I created one
> and took settings from another NetBSD machine that runs this app without
> error and it didn't help. The box that works is Apache 1.3.x on NetBSD. I'm
> wondering whether to try downgrading Apache first or to look for another
> setting in php.ini.
>


Well you need to also install mod_php.

http://pkgsrc.se/www/ap-php