Unofficial Roxen & ChiliMoon FAQs

The official download place is pike.ida.liu.se/download/

A well maintained mirror is:

• ftp.oav.net/pike/
• ftp://ftp.oav.net/pike/
• rsync://ftp.oav.net/pike/
• rsync://ftp.oav.net/pike-cvs/

Be aware that daily builds are usally not as stable as official releases and not recommend for production environment.

Fresh Pike source snapshots are provided by Xenofarm at IDA:

• pike.ida.liu.se/generated/pikefarm/packages/7.4/latest
• pike.ida.liu.se/generated/pikefarm/packages/7.6/latest
• pike.ida.liu.se/generated/pikefarm/packages/7.7/latest

You can get the latest cvs version from roxens' cvs:

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@cvs.roxen.com:/cvs logincvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@cvs.roxen.com:/cvs co Pike/7.7 

It is not necessary to place the whole Pike installation in your Roxen's server location. Simply symlink roxen/server/bin/roxen to your Pike binary, e.g.:

ln -s /usr/local/pike/7.6.15/bin/pike /usr/local/roxen/server-4.0.158/bin/roxen 

Be aware that Roxen's different versions are usually restricted to certain Pike versions.

You can also select a pike to use by setting the environment variable *PIKE*:

$ PIKE=/usr/local/bin/pike 
$ export PIKE 
$ ./start 

If you have multiple server versions inside a single roxen directory, you can also place a pike symlink in <roxenhome>/local/bin instead of <roxenhome>/<serverversion>/bin

Chilimoon 2004

• get the latest Pike 7.7 available from CVS

Roxen 2.0

• Pike 0.7

Roxen 2.1

• Pike 7.0

Roxen 2.2

• Pike 7.2

Roxen 3.3

• Pike 7.2

Roxen 3.4 [see Note 1]

• Pike 7.2 (should also run with Pike 7.4 but not officially supported)

Roxen 4.0

• Pike 7.4
• Pike 7.6 (release later than 7.6.6) [see Note 2]
• Pike 7.6 from CVS later than 2004-08-16 [see Note 2]

[Note 1] there has been no official release of WebServer 3.4, it was only available as Roxen CMS Personal Edition or as WebServer from CVS

[Note 2] supported only in Pike 7.4 compatibility mode

When building pike straight from CVS : A common reason is, that you must have a (old) pike binary in the path when you build pike since some of the source files are generated by pike programs.

Compiling from a source dist (such as provided by Xenofarm) is supported without having a prior installed pike.

The GotPike.org website has an assortment of Pike related content, including a Pike mailing list search engine, and the Pike Module Repository.

www.gotpike.org