[users@httpd] Apache 2.0.54 on IBM z/OS

["Anderson, Dick L" <di...@lmco.com>]

Hi,

I have just attempted to install 2.0.54 on z/OS Release 4.  Everything
went well during:

	./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache-2.0.54 --with-mpm=prefork
		--enable-info --enable-static-support
--enable-charset_lite

	make

	make install

When I bring up the resulting "httpd", it is doing everything EXCEPT
translating the resulting pages from EBCDIC to ISO-8859-I for delivery
to the browser.  That is to say, it is sending EBCDIC-formatted pages to
the browser.  "server-status" and "server-info" requests are also being
responded to with EBCDIC results.

What am I missing here?  Has anyone run this on z/OS?

Thanks for any help...

Dick Anderson

Information Systems & Solutions
Lockheed Martin
(703)453-3956

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Re: [users@httpd] Apache 2.0.54 on IBM z/OS

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

Anderson, Dick L wrote:
> 
> I have just attempted to install 2.0.54 on z/OS Release 4.
> 
> When I bring up the resulting "httpd", it is doing everything EXCEPT
> translating the resulting pages from EBCDIC to ISO-8859-I for delivery
> to the browser.  That is to say, it is sending EBCDIC-formatted pages to
> the browser.

That is *by design* - your content is served as raw binary information.
Any translation you desire should either be pre-converted to the desired
charset, or you can install the mod_charset_lite (provided iconv was
detected and apr-util configured the apr_xlate_* functions).  Note that
fixing the content with mod_charset_lite will be much more cpu intensive
than to pre-stage your files in the desired presentation format.

> "server-status" and "server-info" requests are also being
> responded to with EBCDIC results.

That's a *totally* different issue; you should report this as a bug;
generated content (in this case, from inside mod_status.c and mod_info.c
sources) obviously needs to be changed from the native printf charset
into some ascii flavor.  Again, you can configure mod_charset_lite to
transform this content, but that doesn't diminish the fact that they
should be emitting results in a legible charset :)

Bill

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