The 'Apache on VMS' Project

Last updated Wednesday, 20-Dec-2000 06:50:56 EST

The primary goal of MeepZor Consulting's participation in the Compaq Solutions Alliance involves the Apache Web server. We want to make it run as well as possible on Compaq's Tru64 UNIX operating system, and also port it to OpenVMS.

Since MeepZor Consulting is a non-commercial venture, we rely on donations. Compaq is donating things like hardware, software, and access to resources, and various individuals are donating time and effort.

In essence, this porting effort is a true 'free source' project, since the code developed is freely available and isn't sold by us. It's a lot like the main Apache HTTP Server project. People may be involved for fun, or because their employers want/require them to be, or for whatever reason -- but not because we're paying them.

Project Status

Compaq has released a beta (aka field-test) quality port of Apache 1.3.6 to OpenVMS/Alpha and OpenVMS/VAX! You can find out more about this at their Web page.

Dave Jones of OSU has an experimental version based on the Compaq one! Dave says it should be stressed that the version at OSU (<http://www.er6.eng.ohio-state.edu/~jones/apache/>) is highly experimental and unsupported.

Even though MeepZor Consulting started working with OpenVMS Engineering on the idea of such a port in July of 1998, nothing much has come of that. So rather than have a parallel effort to Compaq's own, MeepZor is going to concentrate on setting up a testing and validation area, or at least some sort of source repository, for the project. As well as offering the apache-vms mailing list (see below).

Getting Involved

If you're interested in this project, please join the (currently very quiet) mailing list by sending 'subscribe apache-vms' in the body of an otherwise-empty message to <Majordomo@MeepZor.Com>.

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