RHEL5 and Apache configuration

[Shawn Wells]

Mad Unix wrote:
> I want to install apache on RHEL5 and configure it with othe options such as
>
> './configure' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--enable-shared'
> '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib/'
> '--enable-versioning' '--enable-track-vars=yes'
> '--enable-url-includes--enable-sysvshm=yes' '--enable-sysvsem=yes'
> '--with-gettext' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-calendar'
> '--with-config-file-path=/etc'
> '--with-oci8=/u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1' '--enable-soap'
> '--with-gd' '--enable-xml' '--with-xml' '--enable-sysvsem'
> '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--with-regex=system' '--with-png'
> '--with-ttf=/usr/lib' '--enable-sigchild'
> '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib/jpeg-6b'
> '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/lib/freetype'
>
> can I do this using rpm or I should with source?
>   

Personally I'd do it by source.  But that's my own (old) habits.

You can download the SRPM from ftp.redhat.com.  Select the proper 
version for yourself:

rpm -ivh 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/httpd-2.2.3-11.el5.src.rpm
rpm -ivh 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/httpd-2.2.3-6.el5.src.rpm
rpm -ivh 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/httpd-2.2.3-7.el5.src.rpm

Look in the /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ directory and see if they're compiled 
with the options you need.  The 2.2.3-11 build contains:

../configure \
        --prefix=%{_sysconfdir}/httpd \
        --exec-prefix=%{_prefix} \
        --bindir=%{_bindir} \
        --sbindir=%{_sbindir} \
        --mandir=%{_mandir} \
        --libdir=%{_libdir} \
        --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir}/httpd/conf \
        --includedir=%{_includedir}/httpd \
        --libexecdir=%{_libdir}/httpd/modules \
        --datadir=%{contentdir} \
        --with-installbuilddir=%{_libdir}/httpd/build \
        --with-mpm=$mpm \
        --with-apr=%{_prefix} --with-apr-util=%{_prefix} \
        --enable-suexec --with-suexec \
        --with-suexec-caller=%{suexec_caller} \
        --with-suexec-docroot=%{contentdir} \
        --with-suexec-logfile=%{_localstatedir}/log/httpd/suexec.log \
        --with-suexec-bin=%{_sbindir}/suexec \
        --with-suexec-uidmin=500 --with-suexec-gidmin=100 \
        --enable-pie \
        --with-pcre \
        $*

Most modules are, well, modular.  You can always add in the extra stuff 
that you need (like Oracle) without recompiling the stock RHEL5 Apache 
release.

Let me know if this helps.

Shawn

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Shawn D. Wells
Solutions Architect, Federal Team
swells at redhat.com
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