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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
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For complete documentation, see manual/platform/windows.html.en or
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/platform/windows.html.
Postscript
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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/