Build Instructions - Apache

Required Packages

Build Steps

  1. Build OpenSSL for Solaris, as described here.
  2. Build a complementary mod_ssl + apache pair: 
    cd /tmp
gtar -xvzf /home/apache/src/apache_1.3.37.tar.gz
gtar -xvzf /home/apache/src/mod_ssl-2.8.28-1.3.37.tar.gz
cd mod_ssl-2.8.28-1.3.37
./configure --with-apache=../apache_1.3.37 --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl
cd ../apache_1.3.37
./configure --prefix=/home/apache/apache-1.3.37 --enable-shared=max \
       --enable-rule=SHARED_CORE --enable-module=so --enable-module=most
gmake
## The certificate is constant; just make sure you don't overwrite it
# sudo gmake certificate TYPE=custom
sudo gmake install
  3. WebDav: 
    cd /tmp
gtar -xvzf /home/apache/src/mod_dav-1.0.3-1.3.6.tar.gz
cd mod_dav-1.0.3-1.3.6
./configure --with-apxs=/home/apache/apache-1.3.37/bin/apxs
gmake; sudo gmake install
  4. mod_perl - first, the modules have to be installed on the system as a whole: 
    cd /tmp; gtar -xzf /home/apache/src/mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz
cd mod_perl-1.29
cpanencap; gmake; sudo gmake install
    Then you can move on to making the full module: 
    perl Makefile.PL USE_APXS=1 \
	WITH_APXS=/home/apache/apache-1.3.37/bin/apxs EVERYTHING=1
gmake
cd apaci; gmake install
  5. PHP: (You may have to build with gcc here.) 
    cd /tmp; gtar -xzf /home/apache/src/php-4.4.4.tar.gz
cd php-4.4.4
./configure --with-imap --with-imap-ssl --with-ldap \
        --with-apxs=/home/apache/current/bin/apxs \
        --with-openssl=/usr/local
gmake; gmake install
    This doesn't always go that cleanly. You may have to replace the 'gmake install' step with: 
    /home/apache/apache-1.3.37/bin/apxs \
	-S LIBEXECDIR=/home/apache/apache-1.3.37/libexec \
	-S SYSCONFDIR=/home/apache/apache-1.3.37/conf \
	-i -a -n php4 libs/libphp4.so
    Additionally, to get IMAP working you'll probably have to follow the instructions here to build c-client. I know this is annoying.
  6. Update the configuration files to your tastes; the ones in /home/apache/conf are probably what you want. 
    cd /home/apache/apache-1.3.37
mv conf conf.bak; ln -s ../conf .
cd ..
rm current; ln -s apache-1.3.37 current
  7. Start it - sudo pkill httpd; sudo /etc/init.d/webserver start

Adding Modules

If you're using APXS to add modules (--with-apxs=[...]), make sure you copy the httpd.conf out of the way before you let it do the install. It will overwrite the file. Grr.

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