Installation of Apache
For security reasons, running the server as an unprivileged user
and group is strongly encouraged. Create the following group and
user using the following commands (as root):
groupadd -g 25 apache &&
useradd -c "Apache Server" -d /dev/null -g apache \
-s /bin/false -u 25 apache
The following patch will define the layout of destination
directories and, among them, the build directory at /usr/lib/apache/build. This will allow the
modules added to Apache to be
configured without errors. Apply the patch:
patch -Np1 -i ../httpd-2.0.54-config-1.patch
Build and install Apache by
running the following commands:
./configure --enable-layout=FHS --enable-mods-shared=all &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
chown root:root /usr/sbin/{apxs,apachectl,dbmmanage,envvars-std,envvars} \
/usr/include/apache/* /usr/lib/apache/httpd.exp \
/usr/share/man/man1/{dbmmanage,htdigest,htpasswd}.1 \
/usr/share/man/man8/{ab,apachectl,apxs,httpd}.8 \
/usr/share/man/man8/{logresolve,rotatelogs,suexec}.8 &&
chown -R apache:apache /srv/www
Command Explanations
--with-expat=/usr: Uses system installed
expat. If you have installed expat and do not use this switch, the
Apache installation may
overwrite some files from the expat installation.
--enable-mods-shared=all: The
modules should be compiled and used as Dynamic Shared Objects
(DSOs) so they can be included and excluded from the server using
the run-time configuration directives.
--enable-ssl: Use this switch to create
the mod_ssl module and enable SSL
support.
chown root:root
...: This command changes the ownership of some
installed files, the result of building the package as a user
other than root.
chown -R apache:apache
/srv/www: By default, the installation process
installs files (documentation, error messages, default icons,
etc.) with the ownership of the user that extracted the files
from the tar file. If you want to change the ownership to another
user, you should do so at this point. The only requirement is
that the document directories need to be accessible by the
httpd process with
(r-x) permissions and files need to be readable (r--) by the
apache user.
Configuring Apache
Configuration
Information
The main configuration file is named httpd.conf. Modify it to run the server as a
dedicated user:
sed -i -e "s%User nobody%User apache%" \
-e "s%^Group #-1%Group apache%" \
/etc/apache/httpd.conf
See
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/configuring.html
for detailed instructions on customizing your Apache HTTP server.
There's a problem with the ISAPI DSO module caused from
compiling with GCC-3.4.3.
Comment out the module from the configuration file with the
following command:
sed -i -e "s/^LoadModule isapi_module/# &/" \
/etc/apache/httpd.conf
If you want the Apache server
to start automatically when the system is booted, install the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/apache init script
included in the blfs-bootscripts-6.1
package.
make install-apache