| 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 | |
| <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/ |