2 APACHE INSTALLATION OVERVIEW
7 For complete installation documentation, see [ht]docs/manual/install.html or
8 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.3/install.html
10 $ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX
13 $ PREFIX/bin/apachectl start
15 NOTES: * Replace PREFIX with the filesystem path under which
16 Apache should be installed. A typical installation
17 might use "/usr/local/apache2" for PREFIX (without the
20 * Consider if you need to use the bundled APR and APR-Util
21 via ./configure's --with-included-apr option, to use the
22 bundled source instead of a previously installed APR and
23 APR-Util (such as those provided with many OSes). This
24 is required if you don't have the compiler which the
25 system APR was built with. This can be advantageous if
26 you are a developer who will be linking your code with
27 Apache or using a debugger to step through server code,
28 as it removes the possibility of version or compile-option
29 mismatches with APR and APR-util code.
31 * If you are a developer building Apache directly from
32 Subversion, you will need to run ./buildconf before running
33 configure. This script bootstraps the build environment and
34 requires Python as well as GNU autoconf and libtool. If you
35 build Apache from a release tarball, you don't have to run
38 * If you want to build a threaded MPM (for instance worker)
39 on FreeBSD, be aware that threads do not work well with
40 Apache on FreeBSD versions before 5.4-RELEASE. If you wish
41 to try a threaded Apache on an earlier version of FreeBSD,
42 use the --enable-threads parameter to ./configure in
43 addition to the --with-mpm parameter.
45 * If you are building directly from Subversion on Mac OS X
46 (Darwin), make sure to use GNU Libtool 1.4.2 or newer. All
47 recent versions of the developer tools on this platform
48 include a sufficiently recent version of GNU Libtool (named
49 glibtool, but buildconf knows where to find it).
51 For a short impression of what possibilities you have, here is a
52 typical example which configures Apache for the installation tree
53 /sw/pkg/apache with a particular compiler and flags plus the two
54 additional modules mod_rewrite and mod_speling for later loading
55 through the DSO mechanism:
57 $ CC="pgcc" CFLAGS="-O2" \
58 ./configure --prefix=/sw/pkg/apache \
59 --enable-rewrite=shared \
60 --enable-speling=shared
62 The easiest way to find all of the configuration flags for Apache 2.3
63 is to run ./configure --help.
69 For complete documentation, see [ht]docs/manual/platform/windows.html or
70 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.3/platform/windows.html.
72 The Apache/Win32 binaries are primarily distributed as a Windows Installer
73 package (.msi), and may be available as a .zip file as well. These packages
74 are named apache-2.3.xx-win32-x86.msi and apache-2.3.xx-win32-x86.zip.
75 Please choose the .msi package if at all possible. Note that Apache version
76 2.3 is a development version and binaries may not be available. Use a
77 released version from the stable 2.2 branch instead.
79 If you have unpacked a source distribution (named httpd-2.3-xx.zip, without
80 any -win32-x86 notation) you must compile the package yourself, see the links
81 mentioned above. Unless you intended to do this, please look again for the
82 binary package from http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/ and
83 install that .msi (or .zip package, if you must.)
85 If you have unpacked this binary distribution from the .zip package, you
86 _must_ edit the conf/httpd.conf file (with notepad or another text editor)
87 to reflect the correct ServerName, Domain, and directory paths. Search for
88 the text "@@" to discover what you must edit. To install and start the
89 service after you have corrected the httpd.conf file, use the command
91 bin\httpd.exe -k install
92 bin\httpd.exe -k start
94 The .msi package configures the httpd.conf file, and installs and starts
95 the Apache2 service for you. It also installs plenty of useful shortcuts
96 and the taskbar ApacheMonitor. We strongly encourage you to use it.
102 The Apache HTTP Server group cannot field user's installation questions.
103 There are many valuable forums to help you get started. Please refer your
104 questions to the appropriate forum, such as the Users Mailing List at
105 http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html or the usenet newsgroups
106 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix or
107 comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows.
109 Thanks for using the Apache HTTP Server, version 2.3.
111 The Apache Software Foundation
112 http://www.apache.org/