APACHE INSTALLATION OVERVIEW
Quick Start - Unix
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For complete installation documentation, see [ht]docs/manual/install.html
or
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.
4/install.html
$ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX
$ make
$ make install
$ PREFIX/bin/apachectl start
NOTES: * Replace PREFIX
with the filesystem path under which
Apache should be installed. A typical installation
might use
"/usr/local/apache2" for PREFIX (without the
quotes).
* Consider
if you want to use a previously installed APR
and
APR-Util (such
as those provided
with many OSes)
or if you
need to use the APR
and APR-Util
from the apr.apache.org
project.
If the latter, download the latest versions
and
unpack them to ./srclib/apr
and ./srclib/apr-util (no
version numbers
in the directory names)
and use
./configure
's --with-included-apr option. This is required
if you don
't have the compiler which the system APR was
built
with. It can also be advantageous
if you are a
developer who will be linking your code
with Apache
or using
a debugger to step through server code,
as it removes the
possibility of version
or compile-option mismatches
with APR
and APR-Util code.
As a convenience, prepackaged source-code
bundles of APR
and APR-Util are occasionally also provided
as a httpd-
2.X.X-deps.tar.gz download.
*
If you are a developer building Apache directly
from
Subversion, you will need to run ./buildconf before running
configure. This script bootstraps the build environment
and
requires Python
as well
as GNU autoconf
and libtool.
If you
build Apache
from a release tarball, you don
't have to run
buildconf.
*
If you want to build a threaded MPM (
for instance worker)
on FreeBSD, be aware that threads do
not work well
with
Apache on FreeBSD versions before
5.
4-RELEASE.
If you wish
to
try a threaded Apache on an earlier version of FreeBSD,
use the --enable-threads parameter to ./configure
in
addition to the --
with-mpm parameter.
*
If you are building directly
from Subversion on Mac OS X
(Darwin), make sure to use GNU Libtool
1.
4.
2 or newer. All
recent versions of the developer tools on this platform
include a sufficiently recent version of GNU Libtool (named
glibtool, but buildconf knows where to find it).
For a short impression of what possibilities you have, here
is a
typical example which configures Apache
for the installation tree
/sw/pkg/apache
with a particular compiler
and flags plus the two
additional modules mod_rewrite
and mod_speling
for later loading
through the DSO mechanism:
$ CC=
"pgcc" CFLAGS=
"-O2" \
./configure --prefix=/sw/pkg/apache \
--enable-rewrite=shared \
--enable-speling=shared
The easiest way to find all of the configuration flags
for Apache
2.
4
is to run ./configure --help.
Quick Start - Windows
---------------------
For complete documentation, see manual/platform/windows.html.en
or
<
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.
4/platform/windows.html>
Postscript
----------
To obtain help
with installation problems, please see the resources at
<
http://httpd.apache.org/support.html>
Thanks
for using the Apache HTTP Server, version
2.
4.
The Apache Software Foundation
http://www.apache.org/
