Making and Installing Apache v2 Under Unix (Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition)

1.12. Making and Installing Apache v2 Under Unix

Disregard all the previous instructions for Apache compilation. There is no longer a .../src directory. Even the name of the Unix source file has changed. We downloaded httpd-2_0_40.tar.gz and unpacked it in /usr/src/apache as usual. You should read the file INSTALL. The scheme for building Apache v2 is now much more in line with that for most other downloaded packages and utilities.

Set up the configuration file with this:

./configure  --prefix=/usr/local

or wherever it is you want to keep the Apache bits — which will appear in various subdirectories. The executable, for instance, will be in .../sbin. If you are compiling under FreeBSD, as we were, --with-mpm=prefork is automatically used internally, since threads do not currently work well under this operating system. To see all the configuration possibilities:

./configure --help | more

If you want to preserve your Apache 1.3.X executable, you might rename it to httpd.13, wherever it is, and then:

make

which takes a surprising amount of time to run. Then:

make install

The result is a nice new httpd in /usr/local/sbin.