I installed Red Hat 9 on one of my spare boxes, without the httpd server
that Red Hat packages. I also left out database servers and PHP.
I downloaded httpd-2.0.45 from Apache Software Foundation so I could
build and install it myself. I took lots of code from Red Hat's
httpd.spec file for the Red Hat version of same, adapting it to my needs
so I could install the 2.0.45 build to the same directories.
Apache 2.0.45 references a file called config.layout in it's source tree
to find the installation directories. There are a number of layouts
defined for different operating systems. One of these exists for Red Hat
7.x.
If you change this file, you need to overlay the config.layout files in
these directories:
httpd-2.0.45/srclib/apr
httpd-2.0.45/srclib/apr-util
or configure will exit with an error message that it can't find the
custom layout you specified. Here is the layout I used for my own build.
# Red Hat Linux 9.0 layout added by Cochran
<Layout RedHatIX>
prefix: /etc/httpd
exec_prefix: /usr
bindir: ${exec_prefix}/bin
sbindir: ${exec_prefix}/sbin
libdir: ${exec_prefix}/lib
libexecdir: ${libdir}/httpd/modules
mandir: /usr/share/man
sysconfdir: /etc/httpd/conf
datadir: /var/www
installbuilddir: ${datadir}/build
errordir: ${datadir}/error
iconsdir: ${datadir}/icons
htdocsdir: ${datadir}/html
manualdir: ${datadir}/manual
cgidir: ${datadir}/cgi-bin
includedir: ${libdir}/httpd
localstatedir: /var
runtimedir: ${localstatedir}/run
logfiledir: ${localstatedir}/log/httpd
proxycachedir: ${localstatedir}/cache/httpd
</Layout>
My build seems to work fine -- of course I probably made some mistakes,
but that is okay. I can redo it as needed. This was a very good
experience for me, I learned a lot of shell scripting.
Onward to PHP 4.3.x!
--
Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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