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Apache HTTP Server installation on Linux
This tutorial explains to you how you can install the Apache HTTP Server on Linux (CentOS, RHL, OEL).
If you want to install the Apache HTTP Server on Linux you have to go to the
https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
and you will see a page like this:
Click on "2.4.23" link (I prefer a stable release) and you will see the following page:
Click on "httpd-2.4.23.tar.gz" to download the Apache for Linux software.
Extracting the source from the Apache HTTP Server tarball is a simple matter of uncompressing, and then untarring:
$ gzip -d httpd-NN.tar.gz
$ tar xvf httpd-NN.tarThis will create a new directory under the current directory containing the source code for the distribution.
You should cd into that directory before proceeding with compiling the server.
In my case I will run:
$ gzip -d httpd-2.4.23.tar.gz
$ tar xvf httpd-2.4.23.tarOne of the prerequisites is to have the APR (Apache Portable Runtime) and APR-Util already installed on
your system. If you don't, or prefer to not use the system-provided versions, download the latest
versions of both APR and APR-Util from Apache APR, unpack them into /httpd_source_tree_root/srclib/apr and
/httpd_source_tree_root/srclib/apr-util (be sure the directory names do not have version numbers; for
example, the APR distribution must be under /httpd_source_tree_root/srclib/apr/) and use
./configure's with --with-included-apr option. On some platforms, you may have to
install the corresponding -dev packages to allow httpd to build against your installed copy of APR and APR-Util.
So, in the apr and apr-util you have to put what you have in the apr-NNNN (apr-1.5.2 in my case).
You also must have the PCRE installed. If it is not, you can run the following command:
yum install pcre*Now you can run the config command:
./configure --prefix=/u01/apache --with-included-apr... and you will see something like this:
If APR is not present or seen, you will receive the error "configure: error: APR not found.":
Now you can build the various parts which form the Apache package by simply running the make command:
$ makeNow you can install the Apache server:
$ make installNow you can start/ stop the Apache server:
$ PREFIX/bin/apachectl start
$ PREFIX/bin/apachectl stop