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). * 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 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 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 2.3 is to run ./configure --help. Quick Start - Windows --------------------- For complete documentation, see [ht]docs/manual/platform/windows.html or http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/platform/windows.html. The Apache/Win32 binaries are primarily distributed as a Windows Installer package (.msi), and may be available as a .zip file as well. These packages are named apache-2.3.xx-win32-x86.msi and apache-2.3.xx-win32-x86.zip. Please choose the .msi package if at all possible. Note that Apache version 2.3 is a development version and binaries may not be available. Use a released version from the stable 2.2 branch instead. If you have unpacked a source distribution (named httpd-2.3-xx.zip, without any -win32-x86 notation) you must compile the package yourself, see the links mentioned above. Unless you intended to do this, please look again for the binary package from http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/ and install that .msi (or .zip package, if you must.) If you have unpacked this binary distribution from the .zip package, you _must_ edit the conf/httpd.conf file (with notepad or another text editor) to reflect the correct ServerName, Domain, and directory paths. Search for the text "@@" to discover what you must edit. To install and start the service after you have corrected the httpd.conf file, use the command bin\Apache -k install bin\Apache -k start The .msi package configures the httpd.conf file, and installs and starts the Apache2 service for you. It also installs plenty of useful shortcuts and the taskbar ApacheMonitor. We strongly encourage you to use it. Postscript ---------- The Apache HTTP Server group cannot field user's installation questions. There are many valuable forums to help you get started. Please refer your questions to the appropriate forum, such as the Users Mailing List at http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html or the usenet newsgroups comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix or comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows. Thanks for using the Apache HTTP Server, version 2.3. The Apache Software Foundation http://www.apache.org/