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= Notice =

This article is obsolete; Slackware 12.0 includes Apache 2 by default (the httpd package). This information is kept here for users of older versions of Slackware.

= Introduction =
Sometimes one needs Apache 2.0.x in Slackware, which comes with Apache 1.3.x by default. Apache 2.0.x is necessary for example for Subversion repository setup or for recent mod_python modules.

'''Prerequisites:'''
*checkinstall (from <tt>extra</tt>)
*mm from http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/mm/

So, first go to http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi and grab the latest <tt>httpd-2.0.x.tar.bz2</tt> file and unpack it:
tar xfvj httpd-2.0.x.tar.bz2

Execute following script in directory just above your unpacked httpd-2.0.

<pre>
#!/bin/sh

build_apache() {

cd httpd-*

cat >> config.layout <<EOF
# Layout for Slackware Linux
<Layout Slackware>
prefix: /usr
exec_prefix: \${prefix}
bindir: \${prefix}/bin
sbindir: \${prefix}/sbin
libdir: \${prefix}/lib
libexecdir: \${prefix}/lib/apache2
mandir: \${prefix}/man
sysconfdir: /etc/apache2
datadir: /var/www
iconsdir: \${datadir}/icons
htdocsdir: \${datadir}/htdocs
manualdir: \${datadir}/manual
cgidir: \${datadir}/cgi-bin
includedir: \${prefix}/include/apache2
localstatedir: /var
runtimedir: \${localstatedir}/run
logfiledir: \${localstatedir}/log/apache2
proxycachedir: \${localstatedir}/cache/apache2
infodir: \${exec_prefix}/share/info
installbuilddir: \${datadir}/build
errordir: \${datadir}/error
</Layout>
EOF
./configure --enable-layout=Slackware \
--enable-module=most \
--enable-mods-shared=most \
--enable-ssl=shared \
--enable-mime-magic \
--enable-expires \
--enable-headers \
--enable-usertrack \
--enable-cgi \
--enable-vhost-alias \
--enable-speling \
--enable-so \
--enable-rewrite \
--enable-deflate \
--enable-dav \
--enable-dav-fs \
--enable-proxy

make clean
time nice make

su -c "checkinstall -y"
}
create_scripts() {
cat > rc.httpd <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
#
# Start the Apache web server
#

case "\$1" in
'start')
/usr/sbin/apachectl start ;;
'stop')
/usr/sbin/apachectl stop ;;
'restart')
/usr/sbin/apachectl restart ;;
*)
echo "usage \$0 start|stop|restart" ;;
esac
EOF
chmod 755 rc.httpd

cat > apache2 <<EOF
/var/log/apache2/*_log {
sharedscripts
monthly
rotate 6
create
compress
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}
EOF
}

build_apache
create_scripts
</pre>

This script will get the job done. It will compile and install Apache 2.0.x together with the startup scripts.

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