RE: Apache Builds on Linux (Apache Users)

Don’t move stuff around once you have things built, or you will break things, just like with most other non-trivial software. The --prefix is where you intend for it to live once all is done, so if you want it to live in /opt/WebSite/Apache1, just put that in the prefix. If you want to temporarily place the build in an alternate location before an install (ex. for packaging, use something like this with the make build and install targets: %make DESTDIR=%{buildroot}. Also, this is probably a typo, but you have a space in your prefix path.

Rick Houser

Web Administration

From: Abernathy, Don [mailto:DAbernathy@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 07:51
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Apache Builds on Linux

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Preface this with new to this subject but:

We have always used an apache instance that was a bundled solution, such at IBM version, and now want to build our own. The build process is well documented, that is not the issue, the deployment is the issue.

what I did was use a prefix like /opt/BaseBuild and that works as expected but now when I copy that Apache to a new home, say /opt/WebSite/Apache1 and try to start it, it keeps pointing to /opt/BaseBuild.

I tried editing all the config files to use the new home, but it looks like the path the logs/files/libraries are all hard coded to the orignal path and noticed that If you remove/ rename the orginal path, Apache will no longer start.

Assume I am going about this wrong, and want to really build a deployable version of Apache to be used many times with a minor change in the path on many servers.

A google does not really show how to do this, so either I am doing it wrong, or this is not common practice, but still something I need to do.

Here is a sample config command:

./configure --prefix=/ opt/BaseBuild --with-suexec-bin=bin/suexec --enable-mods-shared=all --with-mpm=worker --enable-ssl --with-ssl --enable-proxy --enable-cache --enable-disk-ache --with-ldap --enable-ldap --enable-authnz-ldap --enable-cgid --enable-authn-anon --enable-file-cache --enable-authn-alias --disable-imagemapc

Then you make, and Make install.

Thanks.

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