2 APACHE INSTALLATION OVERVIEW
7 For complete installation documentation, see [ht]docs/manual/install.html or
8 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.5/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
22 you need to use the APR and APR-Util from the
23 httpd-2.5.x-deps.tar.gz tarball via ./configure's
24 --with-included-apr option. This is required if you don't
25 have the compiler which the system APR was built with. It
26 can also be advantageous if you are a developer who will be
27 linking your code with Apache or using a debugger to step
28 through server code, as it removes the possibility of
29 version or compile-option mismatches with APR and APR-util
32 * If you are a developer building Apache directly from
33 Subversion, you will need to run ./buildconf before running
34 configure. This script bootstraps the build environment and
35 requires Python as well as GNU autoconf and libtool. If you
36 build Apache from a release tarball, you don't have to run
39 * If you want to build a threaded MPM (for instance worker)
40 on FreeBSD, be aware that threads do not work well with
41 Apache on FreeBSD versions before 5.4-RELEASE. If you wish
42 to try a threaded Apache on an earlier version of FreeBSD,
43 use the --enable-threads parameter to ./configure in
44 addition to the --with-mpm parameter.
46 * If you are building directly from Subversion on Mac OS X
47 (Darwin), make sure to use GNU Libtool 1.4.2 or newer. All
48 recent versions of the developer tools on this platform
49 include a sufficiently recent version of GNU Libtool (named
50 glibtool, but buildconf knows where to find it).
52 For a short impression of what possibilities you have, here is a
53 typical example which configures Apache for the installation tree
54 /sw/pkg/apache with a particular compiler and flags plus the two
55 additional modules mod_rewrite and mod_speling for later loading
56 through the DSO mechanism:
58 $ CC="pgcc" CFLAGS="-O2" \
59 ./configure --prefix=/sw/pkg/apache \
60 --enable-rewrite=shared \
61 --enable-speling=shared
63 The easiest way to find all of the configuration flags for Apache 2.5
64 is to run ./configure --help.
70 For complete documentation, see manual/platform/windows.html.en or
71 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.5/platform/windows.html.
73 The Apache/Win32 binaries are distributed as Windows Installer packages
74 (.msi) named httpd-2.5.xx-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi for a version without mod_ssl
75 and httpd-2.5.xx-win32-x86-openssl-1.0.1x.msi for a version including the
76 mod_ssl plus the openssl library and command line utility. Additional 64 bit
77 binaries have similarly named -win64-x64 package names. These packages
78 may be unpacked without "installing" them by using the msiexec /a option.
80 If you have unpacked a source distribution (named httpd-2.5.x-win32-src.zip,
81 without any -x86 or -x64 notation) you must compile the package yourself,
82 see the links mentioned above. Unless you intended to do this, please look
83 again for an .msi package in http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/
84 and install that desired .msi package.
86 The .msi package configures the httpd.conf file, and installs and starts
87 the Apache2.x service for you. It also installs plenty of useful shortcuts
88 and the taskbar ApacheMonitor. We strongly encourage you to use it.
94 The Apache HTTP Server group cannot field user's installation questions.
95 There are many valuable forums to help you get started. Please refer your
96 questions to the appropriate forum, such as the Users Mailing List at
97 http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html or the usenet newsgroups
98 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix or
99 comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows.
101 Thanks for using the Apache HTTP Server, version 2.5.
103 The Apache Software Foundation
104 http://www.apache.org/