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  APACHE CONFIGURATION

  Apache 1.3 Autoconf-style Interface (APACI)
  ===========================================

  APACI is an Autoconf-style interface for the Unix side of the Apache 1.3
  HTTP server source distribution. It is actually not GNU Autoconf-based, i.e.
  the GNU Autoconf package itself is not used. Instead APACI just provides a
  similar batch configuration interface and a corresponding out-of-the-box
  build and installation procedure.

  The basic goal is to provide the following commonly known and expected
  procedure for out-of-the-box building and installing a package like Apache:

    $ gunzip <apache_1.3.X.tar.gz | tar xvf -
    $ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX [...]
    $ make
    $ make install
  
  NOTE: PREFIX is not the string "PREFIX". Instead use the Unix
        filesystem path under which Apache should be installed. For
        instance use "/usr/local/apache" for PREFIX above.

  After these steps Apache 1.3 is completely installed under PREFIX and
  already initially configured, so you can immediately fire it up the first
  time via

    $ PREFIX/sbin/apachectl start

  to get your first success event with the Apache HTTP server without having
  to fiddle around with various options for a long time. On the other hand
  APACI provides a lot of options to adjust the build and installation process
  for flexibly customizing your Apache installation. So, APACI provides both:
  Out-of-the-box building and installation for the impatient and powerful
  custom configuration for the experts.

  Detailed Description
  ====================

  For a detailed description of all available APACI options please read the
  file INSTALL or at least run the command

     $ ./configure --help

  for a compact one-page summary of the possibilities you have. Additionally
  you can let you be motivated by the following examples.

  Examples
  ========

  In the following typical or even interesting variants of the available
  configuration steps are shown to give you an impression what APACI is good
  for and what APACI can do for you to be able to install Apache without much
  pain.

  Standard installation
  ---------------------

  The standard installation is done via

    $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/apache
    $ make
    $ make install

  This builds Apache 1.3 with the standard set of enabled modules
  (automatically determined from src/Configuration.tmpl) with an Apache 1.2
  conforming subdirectory layout under /path/to/apache. For using the GNU
  style subdirectory layout additionally use the --with-layout=GNU option:

    $ ./configure --with-layout=GNU --prefix=/path/to/apache
    $ make
    $ make install

  If you are not sure which directory layout you want, you can use the
  --show-layout option. It displays the directory layout which would be used
  but immediately exits without configuring anything. Examples:

    $ ./configure --show-layout
    $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/apache --show-layout
    $ ./configure --with-layout=GNU --prefix=/path/to/apache --show-layout

  Additionally if some of the shown paths still don't fit for your particular
  situation, you can use the --bindir, --sbindir, --libexecdir, --mandir,
  --sysconfdir, --datadir, --localstatedir, --runtimedir, --logfiledir and
  --proxycachedir options to adjust the layout as required. Always check with
  --show-layout the resulting directory layout which would be used for
  installation.

  suEXEC support
  --------------

  The suEXEC feature of Apache provides a mechanism to run CGI and SSI
  programs under the user and group id of the owner of the program. It is
  neither installed nor configured per default for Apache 1.3, but APACI
  supports it with additional options:

     $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/apache \
                   --enable-suexec \
                   --suexec-caller=www \
                   --suexec-userdir=.www \
                   --suexec-docroot=/path/to/root/dir \
                   --suexec-logfile=/path/to/logdir/suexec_log \
                   --suexec-uidmin=1000 \
                   --suexec-gidmin=1000 \
                   --suexec-safepath="/bin:/usr/bin"
     $ make
     $ make install

  This automatically builds and installs Apache 1.3 with suEXEC support for
  the caller uid "www" and the user's homedir subdirs ".www". The default
  paths for --suexec-docroot is the value from the --datadir option with
  the suffix "/htdocs" and the --logfiledir value with the suffix
  "/suexec_log" for the --suexec-logfile option. The access paths for the
  suexec program are automatically adjusted and the suexec program is
  installed, so Apache can find it on startup.

  Building multiple platforms in parallel
  ---------------------------------------

  When you want to compile Apache for multiple platforms in parallel it is
  useful to share the source tree (usually via NFS, AFS or DFS) but build the
  object files in separated subtrees. This can be accomplished by letting
  APACI create a source shadow tree and build there:

    $ ./configure --shadow --prefix=/path/to/apache
    $ make
    $ make install

  Then APACI first determines the GNU platform triple, creates a shadow tree
  in src.<gnu-triple> plus corresponding Makefile.<gnu-triple> and then
  performs the complete build process inside this shadow tree.

  Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support
  -----------------------------------

  Apache 1.3 supports building modules as shared objects on all major Unix
  platforms (see section "Supported Platforms" in document
  htdocs/manual/dso.html for details).  APACI has a nice way of enabling the
  building of DSO-based modules and automatically installing them:

    $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/apache \
                  --enable-module=rewrite \
                  --enable-shared=rewrite 
    $ make
    $ make install

  This builds and installs Apache with the default configuration except that
  it adds the mod_rewrite module and automatically builds and installs it as a
  DSO, so it is optionally available for loading under runtime.  To make your
  life even more easy APACI additionally inserts a corresponding `LoadModule'
  line into the httpd.conf file in the installation phase.

  APACI also supports a variant of the --enable-shared option:

    $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/apache \
                  --enable-shared=max
    $ make
    $ make install

  This enables shared object building for the maximum of modules, i.e. all
  enabled modules (--enable-module or the default set) except for mod_so
  itself (the bootstrapping module for DSO support). So, to build a
  full-powered Apache with maximum flexibility by building and installing most
  of the modules, you can use:

    $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/apache \
                  --enable-module=most \
                  --enable-shared=max
    $ make
    $ make install

  This first enables most of the modules (all modules except some problematic
  ones like mod_auth_db which needs third party libraries not available on
  every platform or mod_log_agent and mod_log_referer which are deprecated)
  and then enables DSO support for all of them. This way you get all these
  modules installed and you then can decide under runtime (via the
  `LoadModule') directives which ones are actually used. Especially a very
  useful for vendor package maintainers to provide a flexible Apache package.

  On-the-fly added additional/private module
  ------------------------------------------

  For Apache there are a lot of modules flying around on the net which solve
  particular problems. For a good reference see the Apache Module Registory at
  http://modules.apache.org/ and the Apache Group's contribution directory at
  http://www.apache.org/dist/contrib/modules/. These modules usually come in a
  file named mod_foo.c. APACI supports adding these sources on-the-fly to the
  build process:

    $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/apache \
                  --add-module=/path/to/mod_foo.c
    $ make
    $ make install

  This automatically copies mod_foo.c to src/modules/extra/, activates it in
  the configuration and builds Apache with it. A very useful way is to combine
  this with the DSO support:

    $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/apache \
                  --add-module=/path/to/mod_foo.c \
                  --enable-shared=foo
    $ make
    $ make install

  This builds and installs Apache with the default set of modules, but
  additionally builds mod_foo as a DSO and adds a `LoadModule' line to the
  httpd.conf file to activate it for loading under runtime.

  Apache and mod_perl
  -------------------

  The Apache/Perl integration project (http://perl.apache.org/) from Doug
  MacEachern <dougm@perl.apache.org> is a very powerful approach to integrate
  a Perl 5 interpreter into the Apache HTTP server both for running Perl
  programs and for programming Apache modules in Perl. The distribution
  mod_perl-1.XX.tar.gz can be found on http://perl.apache.org/src/. Here is
  how you can build and install Apache with mod_perl:

    $ gunzip <apache_1.3.X.tar.gz | tar xvf -
    $ gunzip <mod_perl-1.XX.tar.gz | tar xvf -
    $ cd mod_perl-1.XX
    $ perl Makefile.PL APACHE_SRC=../apache_1.3.X/src \
                       DO_HTTPD=1 USE_APACI=1 \
                       [EVERYTHING=1 ...]
    $ make
    $ make install

    [optionally you now have the chance to prepare or add more 
     third-party modules to the Apache source tree]

    $ cd ../apache_1.3.X
    $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/apache \
                  --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a \
                  [--enable-shared=perl]
    $ make 
    $ make install

  Apache and PHP
  --------------

  The PHP language (http://www.php.net) is an HTML-embedded scripting language 
  which can be directly integrated into the Apache HTTP server for powerful HTML 
  scripting.  The package can be found at http://www.php.net/download-php.php3. 

  1. How you can install Apache with a statically linked PHP:

    $ gunzip <apache_1.3.X.tar.gz | tar xvf -
    $ gunzip <php-3.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
    $ cd apache_1.3.X
    $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/apache
    $ cd ../php-3.0
    $ ./configure --with-apache=../apache_1.3.X
    $ make
    $ make install

    [optionally you now have the chance to prepare or add more 
     third-party modules to the Apache source tree]

    $ cd ../apache_1.3.X
    $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/apache \
                  --activate-module=src/modules/php3/libphp3.a
    $ make 
    $ make install
    
  2. You can also use APXS:

    $ cd apache-1.3.X
    $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/apache --enable-shared=max
    $ make
    $ make install

    $ cd php-3.0.X
    $ ./configure --with-apxs=/path/to/apache/bin/apxs \
                  --with-config-file-path=/path/to/apache
    $ make
    $ make install

  At this point don't forget to edit your conf/httpd.conf file and
  make sure the file contains the line for PHP 3:

    AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3

  Or this line for PHP 4:

    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

  Then restart your server.