Better Things

Better Things lyric, heard from Marky Ramones and The Intruders. Well written, well sang..

Here’s wishing you the bluest skies
And hoping something better comes tomorrow
Hoping all the verses rhyme
And the very best of choruses to…
Follow all the doubt and sadness
I know that better things are on the way

Here’s hoping all the days ahead
Won’t be as bitter as the ones behind you
Be an optimist instead
And somehow happiness will find you
Forget what happened yesterday
I know that better things are on the way

It’s really good to see you rocking out
And having fun
Living like you just begun
Accept your life and what it brings
I hope tomorrow you’ll find better things
I hope tomorrow you’ll find better things

Here’s wishing you the bluest skies
And hoping something better comes tomorrow
Hoping all the verses rhyme
And the very best of choruses to…

Follow all the doubt and sadness
I know that better things are on the way

I know you got a lotta good things
Happening up ahead
The fast is gone
It’s all been said
Here’s to what the future brings
I hope tomorrow you’ll find better things
I hope tomorrow you’ll find better things
I hope tomorrow you’ll find better things
I hope tomorrow you’ll find better things

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Large file support for Apache

I'm about to do some Linux installation on several PC. Somehow I just feel to do it via network. Since I've done it using NFS before, this time around http method will be used. The server running on Centos 4.4 already had httpd-2.0.52-28.ent.centos4 installed and already got fedora 6 DVD iso on my external hard drive. So everything's seemed to be in place, right? TTEEETTTT!

I'd uploaded the iso into /var/www/html/fc6 and start up the httpd daemon. Then, fire up firefox and put http://fileserver/fc6/ just to see an empty directory. Moreover, I got the 403 forbidden error when try to access the file directly. Check the error logs and see the the infamous error message
"[Thu Nov 01 14:18:58 2007] [error] [client 192.168.1.207 ] (75)Value too large for defined data type: access to /fc6/FC-6-i386-DVD.iso failed".
Asked google and get a few reference, something was missing in my installed apache so that it could not support any file bigger than 2GB.

OK, no big deal, just use yum to update. But the version suggested by yum is still did not have this feature supported. Next alternative, download a tarball from the the apache itself(version 2.0.61) and run ./configure. Deng!! no gcc installed. Thanks to yum update, the compiler is installed a few minutes later.

./configure, make && make install, went smoothly. But still the get the error messages. I first thought that the later version has automatically set this large file option, guess I was wrong. So google some more to find the required parameters.
Later, I reconfigure my apache using the flags as below:

[root@fileserv httpd-2.0.61]# CFLAGS="-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/www

The file appeared in the browser and accessible. There goes the half day. Case closed. Got a DBA to meet.

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