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jon
Asked: 2011-11-04 05:46:58 +0800 CST

Apache and ZeroConf

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I have a machine running Ubuntu on which I've installed Apache (v2).

What I'm trying to do is enable ZeroConf so that the Apache server will broadcast itself over the network and then will be able to be picked up using Bonjour on OS X systems.

It seems that Apache unfortunately has no support for ZeroConf out-of-the-box so some additional module will be needed.

There are a number of different libraries out there compatible with various versions of Apache and operating systems but mostly fairly out-of-date (mod_zeroconf, mod_rendezvous, mod_bonjour, libapache2-mod-dnssd, amongst others)

Has anyone had any experience with these different libraries and can they recommend a fairly current one that is compatible with Apache2 on Ubuntu?

ubuntu apache-2.2 bonjour mdns

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  1. Best Answer

    I seem to be answering my questions a lot on here these days, but after a day of trying things out I finally managed to get it to work by installing mod_dnssd and figuring the rest out myself (although I found the documentation to be really, really bad).

    Here's what I did:-

    1. Install mod_dnssd

    sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-dnssd

    2. Import the module into Apache and enable the library:

    Open your Apache config file (mine is in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and add the following lines at the top:-

    LoadModule dnssd_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dnssd.so

    DNSSDEnable on

    3. Restart Apache with the new settings

    /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

    Your web server will now be broadcasted using ZeroConf/Bonjour. You can verify this on your Mac by running dns-sd -B _http._tcp . and your machine running the web server should be listed.

    For information, see: http://jona.than.biz/blog/?p=17

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