APACHE INSTALLATION OVERVIEW Quick Start - Unix ------------------ 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 Postscript ---------- To obtain help with installation problems, please see the resources at Thanks for using the Apache HTTP Server, version 2.4. The Apache Software Foundation http://www.apache.org/