Building and running Apache Shindig for PHP¶

The PHP version of Shindig has been moved to the attic, this is only kept here for legacy reasons.

This is the PHP steps on how to build and run Apache Shindig.

Prequisites
Get the code
Running Apache Shindig
Additonal reading

Prequisites before building Apache Shindig for PHP¶

In order to build and run Apache Shindig for PHP, you must have the following:

A Subversion client installed in order to checkout the code.
- Instructions for downloading and installing Subversion can be found here.
Apache with mod_rewrite enabled.
- PHP 5.2.x with the json, simplexml, mcrypt and curl extentions enabled.

Getting the code¶

Create a subdirectory in your web document root, e.g. /var/www/html and checkout the Apache Shindig code from its Subversion repository.

mkdir /var/www/html/shindig
cd /var/www/html/shindig
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/shindig/trunk/

Running Apache Shindig¶

With PHP There is no need to build anything - the source code is already built.

To run the code, you have several options:

a. Create a new virtual host¶

Point your apache to the php dir with a virtual host like:

      <VirtualHost your_ip:your_port>
        ServerName your.host
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/shindig/php
        ... other normal settings in vhosts...
      </VirtualHost>

Restart apache, and point your browser to:

http://your.host/gadgets/ifr?url=http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/todo/todo.xml

b. Run with an existing host¶

If you cannot/don't want to create a virtual host, you can edit the file php/config.php and change the web_prefix setting to '/shindig/php'.

Then you can run the gadget by pointing your browser to:

http://your.host/shindig/php/gadgets/ifr?url=http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/todo/todo.xml

Additional reading¶

Read php/README for original instructions on how to start up the php Apache Shindig server.