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

[Jason Mitchell <jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost>]

On 03/17/2011 03:23 PM, matthew sporleder wrote:
> 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 as well, so I think the speedtest.net documentation is out of date, but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
That was it. Clearly I was way too tired -- sorry for the noise.