2 APACHE INSTALLATION OVERVIEW
7 For complete installation documentation, see [ht]docs/manual/install.html or
8 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/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 want to use a previously installed APR and
21 APR-Util (such as those provided with many OSes) or if you
22 need to use the APR and APR-Util from the apr.apache.org
23 project. If the latter, download the latest versions and
24 unpack them to ./srclib/apr and ./srclib/apr-util (no
25 version numbers in the directory names) and use
26 ./configure's --with-included-apr option. This is required
27 if you don't have the compiler which the system APR was
28 built with. It can also be advantageous if you are a
29 developer who will be linking your code with Apache or using
30 a debugger to step through server code, as it removes the
31 possibility of version or compile-option mismatches with APR
32 and APR-Util code. As a convenience, prepackaged source-code
33 bundles of APR and APR-Util are occasionally also provided
34 as a httpd-2.X.X-deps.tar.gz download.
36 * If you are a developer building Apache directly from
37 Subversion, you will need to run ./buildconf before running
38 configure. This script bootstraps the build environment and
39 requires Python as well as GNU autoconf and libtool. If you
40 build Apache from a release tarball, you don't have to run
43 * If you want to build a threaded MPM (for instance worker)
44 on FreeBSD, be aware that threads do not work well with
45 Apache on FreeBSD versions before 5.4-RELEASE. If you wish
46 to try a threaded Apache on an earlier version of FreeBSD,
47 use the --enable-threads parameter to ./configure in
48 addition to the --with-mpm parameter.
50 * If you are building directly from Subversion on Mac OS X
51 (Darwin), make sure to use GNU Libtool 1.4.2 or newer. All
52 recent versions of the developer tools on this platform
53 include a sufficiently recent version of GNU Libtool (named
54 glibtool, but buildconf knows where to find it).
56 For a short impression of what possibilities you have, here is a
57 typical example which configures Apache for the installation tree
58 /sw/pkg/apache with a particular compiler and flags plus the two
59 additional modules mod_rewrite and mod_speling for later loading
60 through the DSO mechanism:
62 $ CC="pgcc" CFLAGS="-O2" \
63 ./configure --prefix=/sw/pkg/apache \
64 --enable-rewrite=shared \
65 --enable-speling=shared
67 The easiest way to find all of the configuration flags for Apache 2.4
68 is to run ./configure --help.
74 For complete documentation, see manual/platform/windows.html.en or
75 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/platform/windows.html.
77 The Apache/Win32 binaries are distributed as Windows Installer packages
78 (.msi) named httpd-2.4.xx-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi for a version without mod_ssl
79 and httpd-2.4.xx-win32-x86-openssl-1.0.1x.msi for a version including the
80 mod_ssl plus the openssl library and command line utility. Additional 64 bit
81 binaries have similarly named -win64-x64 package names. These packages
82 may be unpacked without "installing" them by using the msiexec /a option.
84 If you have unpacked a source distribution (named httpd-2.4.x-win32-src.zip,
85 without any -x86 or -x64 notation) you must compile the package yourself,
86 see the links mentioned above. Unless you intended to do this, please look
87 again for an .msi package in http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/
88 and install that desired .msi package.
90 The .msi package configures the httpd.conf file, and installs and starts
91 the Apache2.4 service for you. It also installs plenty of useful shortcuts
92 and the taskbar ApacheMonitor. We strongly encourage you to use it.
98 To obtain help with installation problems, please see the resources at
99 <http://httpd.apache.org/support.html>
101 Thanks for using the Apache HTTP Server, version 2.4.
103 The Apache Software Foundation
104 http://www.apache.org/