Making Apache 1.3.X Under Unix

Download the most recent Apache source code from a suitable mirror site: a list can be found at http://www.apache.org/ ^[10]. You will get a compressed file — with the extension .gz if it has been gzipped or .Z if it has been compressed. Most Unix software available on the Web (including the Apache source code) is zipped using gzip, a GNU compression tool.

When expanded, the Apache .tar file creates a tree of subdirectories. Each new release does the same, so you need to create a directory on your FreeBSD machine where all this can live sensibly. We put all our source directories in /usr/src/apache. Go there, copy the <apachename>.tar.gz or <apachename>.tar.Z file, and uncompress the .Z version or gunzip (or gzip -d ) the .gz version:

               uncompress <
               apachename
               >.tar.Z

or:

               gzip -d <
               apachename
               >.tar.gz

Make sure that the resulting file is called <apachename>.tar, or tar may turn up its nose. If not, type:

               mv 
               <
               apachename
               > 
               <
               apachename
               >.tar

Now unpack it:

               % tar xvf <
               apachename
               >.tar

Incidentally, modern versions of tar will unzip as well:

               % tar xvfz <
               apachename
               >.tar.gz

Keep the .tar file because you will need to start fresh to make the SSL version later on (see Chapter 11). The file will make itself a subdirectory, such as apache_1.3.14.

Under Red Hat Linux you install the .rpmfile and type:

rpm -i apache

Under Debian:

apt-get install apache

The next task is to turn the source files you have just downloaded into the executable httpd. But before we can discuss that that, we need to talk about Apache modules.

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^[10] It is best to download it, so you get the latest version with all its bug fixes and security patches.