APACHE INSTALLATION OVERVIEW Quick Start - Unix ------------------ For complete installation documentation, see [ht]docs/manual/install.html or http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/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). * Read the section "APR - Unix" below. * 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 2.5 is to run ./configure --help. APR - Unix ---------- httpd trunk (httpd development version 2.5) can use APR trunk (future APR version 2.0) or the combination of the current APR 1.x branch and the current APR-util 1.x branch. (APR trunk bundles the features in APR-util 1.x.) The httpd buildconf step, required when building httpd from Subversion, must have access to the APR source. The httpd configure step, always required, can configure the APR source in srclib or use a previously- built APR. APR (and APR-util if using APR 1.x) can be built with httpd from httpd's srclib directory or can be built separately, prior to building httpd. Building APR with httpd from httpd's srclib directory is required if you don't have the compiler which the system APR was built with, and it can also be advantageous if you are a developer who will be linking your code with httpd 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. To use APR trunk in srclib: Check out APR trunk in srclib/apr with the following command: svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/trunk srclib/apr buildconf will find it automatically. Use the --with-included-apr argument to httpd configure. To use APR 1.x and APR-util 1.x in srclib: Check out the current branches as srclib/apr and srclib/apr-util with the following commands: svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/branches/1.7.x srclib/apr svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr-util/branches/1.6.x srclib/apr-util buildconf will find them automatically. Use the --with-included-apr argument to httpd configure. To use existing checkouts of APR (and APR-util if using APR 1.x): httpd buildconf must have access to the source trees. Use these arguments to httpd buildconf: --with-apr=[path to apr source] --with-apr-util=[path to apr-util source] (Omit --with-apr-util if using APR trunk.) httpd configure must have access to a previously build apr. Use these arguments to httpd configure: --with-apr=[path to apr install] --with-apr-util=[path to apr-util install] (Omit --with-apr-util if using APR trunk.) Quick Start - Windows --------------------- For complete documentation, see manual/platform/windows.html.en or Postscript ---------- To obtain help with installation problems, please see the resources at Thanks for using the Apache HTTP Server, version 2.5. The Apache Software Foundation http://www.apache.org/