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Apache Installation Walkthrough |
Before You StartThe first thing to do before you start the installation process is to decide what sort of configuration you are going to have for this web-server. The modules that you are definitely going to install are:
The parts that you are going to have to decide about are:
Note that these features can be added on later if you want to do so. However, you might need to repeat certain steps of the Installation procedure to enable these features. In practise, the author generally employs the following feature set. Your set of requirements may be similar as well:
This guide will go through setting up Apache with the above modules compiled statically as part of the apache binary. The advantage of this is that the binary has everything it needs and there's no need for additional libraries. This enables it to run slightly faster as well. The disadvantage of using this approach is that you cannot add new modules on the fly, without recompiling apache. Say, sometimes people may want to turn on features such as image maps at a later stage. In this case, it is necessary is to recompile the apache binary to include the necessary module. If you compile apache with DSO library support, then you can add/remove new modules by just modifying a few lines to the configuration file. However, the webserver will run slightly slower. Normally, people don't add and remove modules that often, so I've settled for compiling everything statically into apache instead of providing DSO support. If you want to add DSO support to apache, check out the apache website for this. |
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Apache Installation Walkthrough
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