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With an ANSI C compiler, you can rebuild Xitami on your system. Note that the Xitami sources are ANSI C/POSIX compatible, and should build cleanly on the majority of UNIX systems. We and other people have tested Xitami on these systems:
To install the source kit you need about 15Mb of disk space. You can download the Xitami sources as a compressed tar file (.tgz). To unpack a tgz file you need GNU gunzip. Download the suni25b4.tgz source kit. To unpack the compressed file, give these commands:
gunzip suni25b4.tgz tar -xvf suni25b4.tar
The resulting directory structure includes the full sources for Xitami (basically the SFL and SMT packages), plus a build script, xibuild, plus the directories and web pages you need to get started with Xitami.
The xibuild script compiles Xitami and installs the executable program in the top directory (where xibuild is located). To run xibuild, give these commands:
chmod +x xibuild ./xibuild
When you have built Xitami, run xitami, then connect with any web browser. You should see the "Welcome To Xitami" test page. If Xitami cannot run on its normal port (80), it shows an error message: this can happen if another server is using port 80. To use an alternative HTTP port, use the '-b' option. This shifts the standard HTTP and FTP ports by some 'base'. For example, '-b 5000' runs the Xitami HTTP service on port 5080 and the FTP service on port 5021. You would then connect using http://localhost:5080/.
If Xitami does not build cleanly on your system, the problem will usually lie in non-standard code in the SFL library upon which Xitami is based. It's possible that your system (or compiler) does not do what SFL expects. In general the only file which you may need to change is the prelude.h file in the SFL directory. Read the SFL doc if you think you want to make changes to this library (it's pretty simple, really, and many people done this).