Assumptions:
- Apache version 1.3.12
- Apache tarball downloaded into a dir named /home/_installer/apache
- Hardware has Red Hat Linux operating system.
- User has root privileges.
1.0 Unpacking Apache
# cd /home/_installer/apache
# gzip -dc apache* | tar xvf -
# mv apache_1.3.12 /usr/local
# cd /usr/local
# chown -R root:root apache_1.3.12
# ln -s apache_1.3.12 httpd
2.0 Configuring Apache
2.1 Conventions
/www - main "publishing" directory
/www/conf - configuration files directory
/www/logs - log directory
/www/servers - "sites" directory
/www/servers/yourdomain.com - document root for yourdomain.com
2.2 Creating Configuration directories
# cd /
# mkdir www
# cd /www
# mkdir conf logs servers
# cd servers
# mkdir yourdomain.com
2.3 Configuring Apache
# cd /usr/local/httpd
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/httpd --sysconfdir=/www/conf
note: this sets up installation of the binaries at /usr/local/httpd and configuration files at /www/conf
2.4 Compiling Apache
note: assumes you're in /usr/local/httpd and have done ./configure
# make
# make install
3.0 Automatic Apache Startup during boot
note: Red Hat comes with a bundled apache startup file which we shall modify
3.1 Edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
# cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
# vi httpd
# Add the following lines
PIDFILE=/usr/local/httpd/logs/httpd.pid
BINFILE=/usr/local/httpd/bin/httpd
SYSCONF=/www/conf/httpd.conf
# endof added lines
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting httpd: "
# modified the following line
#daemon httpd
# to show...
daemon $BINFILE -f $SYSCONF
# endof modification
3.2 Automatic Shutdown
# cd /etc/rc.d/rc0.d
# ln -s ../init.d/httpd K15httpd
# cd /etc/rc.d/rc6.d
# ln -s ../init.d/httpd K15httpd
3.3 Automatic Startup
# cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
# ln -s ../init.d/httpd S15httpd
# cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
# ln -s ../init.d/httpd S15httpd
That's it!
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