First I would thank all those people who send questions and suggestions that made a further development of this document possible. It shows me, sharing knowledge is the right way. I would encourage you to send me more suggestion, just write me an email <>
All Linux-distributions I tested, had a bad defaultsetup of Apache. Additionally all major distributions dont have actual versions of Apache.
Finally no commercial Unix comes with Apache preinstalled (Why not?)
Since I'm installing a lot of customized webservers on different Un*xes, I wrote a plaintext document and put it on my website to get access to it at work. Later a friend posted the URL to a mailinglist, and the first questions arrived. So I decided to put more on the page.
After a lot of people requested the document as an “official” HOWTO, I decided to do so.
Compiling all the stuff described below needs to know a lot of configure-options that nobody can memorize. Its supposed to be a “copy-paste-ready” text to compile apache and friends
The second goal of this document is, people should lern how to build a full-featured Apache-webserver bythemself to be independant from any Linux distributors.
Its just a Document, not a script that makes the work for you. You have to do all steps by yourself.
The original Document I wrote was for all major Un*x plattforms. Now the HOWTOs are separated for each Plattforms. You will find the same document adapted for the respective Platform for:
Linux (This Document)
IBM AIX 4.3 and 5.1L
Sun Solaris 6/7/8
Hewlett-Packard HPUX 11
{Free|Net|Open}-BSD
Important Notice for users running Linux on IBM S/390 (zSeries): postgres and Jserv wont compile on that system. All other programms and modules mentioned in the HOWTO are working perfectly
Other Un*x-platforms: Feel free to create a guest-account for me on your Un*x platform.
Windows-Users: I'm sorry, I'm too young for an heart-attack ;-)
| Revision History | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revision 1.9.7 | 2001-12-26 | |
| Updates of software mentioned in the HOWTO, tested the HOWTO procedures on Linux running on IBM S/390 (zSeries) Machines (See "platforms" for more info), Added some basic support for Tomcat (Binaries only) | ||
| Revision 1.9.6 | 2001-10-27 | |
| Updates of software mentioned in the HOWTO, and fixed some bugs | ||
| Revision 1.9.5 | 2001-08-27 | |
| Yet another rewrite in Docbook 3.1 | ||
| Revision 1.9.4 | 2001-08-26 | |
| Updated the Software-Versions metioned in the document, corrected some typos | ||
| Revision 1.9.3 | 2001-06-23 | |
| Current Version 2.0.0-pre3 in Linux DocBook format | ||
| Revision 1.0.0 | 2000-08-05 | |
| First publication of the html-based document | ||
The most recent version of this document you will at http://www.delouw.ch/linux/apache.phtml
New revisions of this document will be announced at http://freshmeat.net/apacompile
Luc (in english Luke) is 29 years old, playing around with computers since 20years. Currently he is working as Unix System Engineer for an IT-corporation located in Kloten (Zurich), Switzerland. Main-focus is developping all flavours of innovative Systems running on Linux (and other Un*xes . Further, for all major Un*x platforms all the “impossible” tasks will end up on his desk (yes, its funny and he love it!)