Basic apache configuration in FreeBSD

So I decided to try out apache in FreeBSD...

pkg_add -rv apache
vi /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf

Added the lines:

ServerName www
BindAddress *

Supposing my hostname is dvorak, I need to edit

vi /etc/hosts

and add the line:

127.0.0.1 dvorak

And now

apachectl start

The DocumentRoot is /usr/local/www/data in this default configuration.

Great. Now it "works" but being given the default config, right now I can't enter non-Latin characters in files/filenames. I'd basically need UTF-8 exported as charset. The solution is to make use of ~/.login_conf.

For a minimalistic ~/.login_conf, I need to do:

echo "me:\" >> ~/.login_conf
echo ":charset=UTF-8:\" >> ~/.login_conf
echo ":lang= en_US.UTF-8" >> ~/.login_conf

Wheee now I can enter stuff such as "şţăîâабкдеф" in the terminal!

More on setting locales (via ~/.login_conf) in the FreeBSD handbook.

Next on, I need to make apache know of UTF-8:

echo "AddDefaultCharset utf-8" >> /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
apachectl restart

Voilà!

Just one more thing: in order to have apache started automatically at each boot, I need an entry in /etc/rc.conf:

echo 'apache_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf