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<h1 align="CENTER">Compiling and Installing Apache 1.3</h1>
<p>This document covers compilation and installation of Apache
on Unix systems, using the manual build and install method. If
you wish to use the autoconf-style configure interface, you
should instead read the INSTALL file in the root directory of
the Apache source distribution. For compiling and installation
on specific platforms, see</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="windows.html">Using Apache with Microsoft
Windows</a></li>
<li><a href="cygwin.html">Using Apache with Cygwin</a></li>
<li><a href="netware.html">Using Apache with Novell Netware
5</a></li>
<li><a href="mpeix.html">Using Apache with HP MPE/iX</a></li>
<li><a href="unixware.html">Compiling Apache under
UnixWare</a></li>
<li><a href="readme-tpf.html">Overview of the Apache TPF
Port</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Downloading Apache</h2>
Information on the latest version of Apache can be found on the
Apache web server at <a
will list the current release, any more recent beta-test
release, together with details of mirror web and anonymous ftp
sites.
<p>If you downloaded a binary distribution, skip to <a
href="#install">Installing Apache</a>. Otherwise read the next
section for how to compile the server.</p>
<h2>Compiling Apache</h2>
Compiling Apache consists of three steps: Firstly select which
Apache <strong>modules</strong> you want to include into the
server. Secondly create a configuration for your operating
system. Thirdly compile the executable.
<p>All configuration of Apache is performed in the
<code>src</code> directory of the Apache distribution. Change
into this directory.</p>
<ol>
<li>
Select modules to compile into Apache in the
<code>Configuration</code> file. Uncomment lines
corresponding to those optional modules you wish to include
(among the AddModule lines at the bottom of the file), or
add new lines corresponding to additional modules you have
downloaded or written. (See <a
href="misc/API.html">API.html</a> for preliminary docs on
how to write Apache modules). Advanced users can comment
out some of the default modules if they are sure they will
not need them (be careful though, since many of the default
modules are vital for the correct operation and security of
the server).
<p>You should also read the instructions in the
<code>Configuration</code> file to see if you need to set
any of the <code>Rule</code> lines.</p>
</li>
<li>
Configure Apache for your operating system. Normally you
can just run the <code>Configure</code> script as given
below. However if this fails or you have any special
requirements (<em>e.g.</em>, to include an additional
library required by an optional module) you might need to
edit one or more of the following options in the
<code>Configuration</code> file: <code>EXTRA_CFLAGS, LIBS,
LDFLAGS, INCLUDES</code>.
<p>Run the <code>Configure</code> script:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>
% Configure
Using 'Configuration' as config file
+ configured for <whatever> platform
+ setting C compiler to <whatever> *
+ setting C compiler optimization-level to <whatever> *
+ Adding selected modules
+ doing sanity check on compiler and options
Creating Makefile in support
Creating Makefile in main
Creating Makefile in os/unix
Creating Makefile in modules/standard
</pre>
</blockquote>
(*: Depending on Configuration and your system, Configure
might not print these lines. That's OK).
<p>This generates a Makefile for use in stage 3. It also
creates a Makefile in the support directory, for
compilation of the optional support programs.</p>
<p>(If you want to maintain multiple configurations, you
can give an option to <code>Configure</code> to tell it to
read an alternative Configuration file, such as
<code>Configure -file Configuration.ai</code>).</p>
</li>
<li>Type <code>make</code>.</li>
</ol>
The modules we place in the Apache distribution are the ones we
have tested and are used regularly by various members of the
Apache development group. Additional modules contributed by
members or third parties with specific needs or functions are
available at <<a
There are instructions on that page for linking these modules
into the core Apache code.
<h2><a id="install" name="install">Installing Apache</a></h2>
You will have a binary file called <code>httpd</code> in the
<code>src</code> directory. A binary distribution of Apache
will supply this file.
<p>The next step is to install the program and configure it.
Apache is designed to be configured and run from the same set
of directories where it is compiled. If you want to run it from
somewhere else, make a directory and copy the
<code>conf</code>, <code>logs</code> and <code>icons</code>
directories into it. In either case you should read the <a
href="misc/security_tips.html#serverroot">security tips</a>
describing how to set the permissions on the server root
directory.</p>
<p>The next step is to edit the configuration files for the
server. This consists of setting up various
<strong>directives</strong> in up to three central
configuration files. By default, these files are located in the
<code>conf</code> directory and are called
<code>srm.conf</code>, <code>access.conf</code> and
<code>httpd.conf</code>. To help you get started there are same
files in the <code>conf</code> directory of the distribution,
called <code>srm.conf-dist</code>,
<code>access.conf-dist</code> and <code>httpd.conf-dist</code>.
Copy or rename these files to the names without the
<code>-dist</code>. Then edit each of the files. Read the
comments in each file carefully. Failure to setup these files
correctly could lead to your server not working or being
insecure. You should also have an additional file in the
<code>conf</code> directory called <code>mime.types</code>.
This file usually does not need editing.</p>
<p>First edit <code>httpd.conf</code>. This sets up general
attributes about the server: the port number, the user it runs
as, <em>etc.</em> Next edit the <code>srm.conf</code> file;
this sets up the root of the document tree, special functions
like server-parsed HTML or internal imagemap parsing,
<em>etc.</em> Finally, edit the <code>access.conf</code> file
to at least set the base cases of access.</p>
<p>In addition to these three files, the server behavior can be
configured on a directory-by-directory basis by using
<code>.htaccess</code> files in directories accessed by the
server.</p>
<h3>Set your system time properly!</h3>
Proper operation of a public web server requires accurate time
keeping, since elements of the HTTP protocol are expressed as
the time of day. So, it's time to investigate setting up NTP or
some other time synchronization system on your Unix box, or
whatever the equivalent on NT would be.
<h2>Compiling Support Programs</h2>
In addition to the main <code>httpd</code> server which is
compiled and configured as above, Apache includes a number of
support programs. These are not compiled by default. The
support programs are in the <code>support</code> directory of
the distribution. To compile the support programs, change into
this directory and type
<pre>
make
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