Building Apache HTTP Server

Building Apache HTTP Server

Below versions of Apache HTTP Server are available in respective distributions at the time of this recipe creation:

• RHEL 6.8 has 2.2.15
• RHEL 7.1/7.2/7.3 have 2.4.6
• SLES 11-SP4 has 2.2.12
• SLES 12 has 2.4.10
• SLES 12-SP1 and 12-SP2 has 2.4.16
• Ubuntu 16.04 has 2.4.18

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.25 on IBM z Systems for RHEL 6.8, RHEL 7.1/7.2/7.3, SLES 11-SP4, SLES 12/12-SP1/12-SP2 and Ubuntu 16.04/16.10.

General Notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.
• A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writeable directory anywhere you'd like to place it

Step 1: Building Apache HTTP Server

1.1) Install dependencies

• RHEL 6.8 and RHEL 7.1/7.2/7.3

  sudo yum install git openssl openssl-devel gcc libtool autoconf make pcre pcre-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel expat-devel which wget tar

• SLES 11-SP4

  sudo zypper install git gcc libtool autoconf make pcre pcre-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel libexpat-devel wget tar awk

• SLES 12/12-SP1/12-SP2

  sudo zypper install git openssl openssl-devel gcc libtool autoconf make pcre pcre-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel libexpat-devel wget tar

• Ubuntu 16.04/16.10

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install git python openssl gcc autoconf make libtool-bin libpcre3-dev libxml2  libexpat1 libexpat1-dev wget tar 

1.2) Build Openssl 1.0.2 (SLES 11-SP4 Only)

cd /<source_root>/
wget ftp https://www.openssl.org/source/old/1.0.2/openssl-1.0.2i.tar.gz
tar zxf openssl-1.0.2i.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.2i
./config --prefix=/usr --openssldir=/etc/ssl --libdir=lib shared zlib-dynamic
make
sudo make install		
export PATH=/usr/local/ssl/bin:$PATH

1.3) Build Libtool (RHEL 6.8 andSLES 11-SP4 Only)

cd /<source_root>/
wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libtool/libtool-2.4.6.tar.gz
tar -xvf libtool-2.4.6.tar.gz
cd libtool-2.4.6
./configure
make
sudo make install

Note: RHEL 6.8 and SLES 11-SP4 has an older version of libtool available. Apache HTTP Server needs a later version of libtool.

1.4) Extract Apache HTTP source code (and supporting packages)

cd /<source_root>/
git clone https://github.com/apache/httpd.git 
cd /<source_root>/httpd
git checkout 2.4.25
cd /<source_root>/srclib
git clone https://github.com/apache/apr.git

1.5) Build Apache Portable Runtime

cd /<source_root>/httpd/apr
./buildconf 
./configure
make
sudo make install

Note: The apache2-utils binaries are created in /<source_root>/httpd/support/ folder. Following is the list of binaries that are created:

• ab
• logresolve
• htpasswd
• htdigest
• htdbm
• rotatelogs
• checkgid
• dbmmanage
• split-logfile
• check_forensic
• httxt2dbm

1.6) Build and Install Apache HTTP Server

cd /<source_root>/httpd
./buildconf
./configure --prefix=<build-location>
make
sudo make install

Note: Skipping the --prefix results in Apache httpd being installed in the default location.

Step 2: Verification(Optional)

Note: All the following commands may require sudo depending on the <build-location> specified.

2.1) Update your configuration as necessary

To update configuration you may modify <build-location>/conf/httpd.conf file.

2.2) Verify the configuration and start the server

<build-location>/bin/apachectl configtest
<build-location>/bin/apachectl -k start

Note: If <build-location> is the prefix you specified, ensure that in /conf/httpd.conf file, values for User and Group fields are same as that of <build-location>. Else, it will display forbidden(403) error in the browser.

2.3) Stop the webserver

<build-location>/bin/apachectl -k stop

Note: <build-location> is the prefix you specified, if you didn't specify a prefix it should be installed to /usr/local/apache2.

References:

http://httpd.apache.org/