Apache Installation on Linux

Below are the Prerequisite for installing the Apache on Linux.

1.    GCC Compiler

  $ yum groupinstall "Development Tools"   (this will also install GCC, apr and apr-util , but with legacy version,so install the latest apr in further steps)

2.    APR/APR-UTIL

Download the APR/APR-UTIL from the "https://apr.apache.org/" and run the below command as a root user.

APR

 $ ./configure
 $  make
$  make install

Which installs apr on /usr/local/apr

APR-UTIL:

$ ./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr
$  make
$ make install

3.    PCRE (perl)

Download the PCRE from the "https://apr.apache.org/" and run the below command as a root user.

Note: Also Install "yum install pcre-devel"  otherwise we might get error while installing apache like  "util_pcre.c:49:18: error: pcre.h: No such file or directory"

a.    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pcre
b.    make
c.    make install

Which installs apache on /usr/local/pcre

 Install Apache

Download Apache from the "https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi" url and run the below comands on liux terminal.

Directory: /u01/httpd-2.4.20 
$ ./configure --prefix=/u01/Apache2.4.20 --enable-mods-shared=all --enable-so --enable-rewrite --enable-ssl --enable-proxy  --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl
$ make
$ make install