Compiling and installing Apache webserver from source on redhat linux

Just a quick post about something i had to to do today. It’s all in the Apache docs, but bits of it was hard to find. I was working on a redhat 4 64-bit

Grab the source from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

I picked the Unix Source: httpd-2.2.17.tar.gz

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Unpack with tar xzf httpd-2.2.17.tar.gz
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Cd httpd-2.2.17
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./configure --prefix /path/to/apache --enable-mods-shared=all --enable-proxy --enable-ssl

If you leave out "--prefix ..." then the installation directory is set to /usr/local/apache2

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make
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- ```
Does all the compiling
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make install

Installs into the directory that you wrote in --prefix

Edit the /conf/httpd.conf if you want to set a another port or change some other setting

Controlling the Apache server:

/bin/apachectl -k start
/bin/apachectl -k stop
/bin/apachectl -k restart
/bin/apachectl -k graceful-stop

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Written by Sebastian Vilstrup

March 25, 2011 at 10:38

Posted in Infrastructure

Tagged with Apache source redhat httpd linux compile

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