Installing Apache 2.4.1 from source on CentOS 6.2 Linux

Apache 2.4.1 is the latest stable version available on Apache.org download section. Since it is the latest version so it may have plenty of dependencies issues. In my case, i am installing it from source(httpd-2.4.1.tar.bz2).

Currently i am logged in using SSH on Plain CentOS 6.2 server and it has very basic packages installed.

Downloading and compiling Apache 2.4.1

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://apache.mirrors.pair.com//httpd/httpd-2.4.1.tar.bz2
tar -jxf httpd-2.4.1.tar.bz2
cd httpd-2.4.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-so --enable-deflate --enable-expires --enable-headers --enable-rewrite

Note : Here i required deflate,expires,headers and other modules so i included that.

Ops, failed to dependencies.. because we don’t have gcc compiler and other devel packages for apr, apr-utils, openssl and so on.
yum install apr-devel apr-util-devel gcc pcre-devel.x86_64 zlib-devel openssl-devel

Great. Here we go;
make
again ERROR :

rotatelogs.c:298: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘apr_file_link’
/usr/lib64/apr-1/build/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -pthread
-o rotatelogs  rotatelogs.lo      /usr/lib64/libaprutil-1.la -ldb-4.7 -lexpat
-ldb-4.7 /usr/lib64/libapr-1.la -lpthread
rotatelogs.o: In function `post_rotate':
rotatelogs.c:(.text+0x5ed): undefined reference to `apr_file_link'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [rotatelogs] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/httpd-2.4.1/support'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/httpd-2.4.1/support'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Current apr and apr-util version is older while Apache 2.4.1 requires latest APR and APR-utils e.g 1.4.x is the latest available version.
Lets include the latest apr and apr-util into apache srlib/ so it can also be compiled along with Apache.
cd /usr/local/src/httpd-2.4.1/srclib/

Installing APR & APR-Utils dependencies :

wget http://mirror-cybernet.lums.edu.pk/pub/apache//apr/apr-util-1.4.1.tar.bz2
wget http://mirror-cybernet.lums.edu.pk/pub/apache//apr/apr-1.4.6.tar.bz2

Note : If this mirror doesn’t work, chose other mirrors

tar -jxf apr-1.4.6.tar.bz2
tar -jxf apr-util-1.4.1.tar.bz2
mv apr-1.4.6 apr
mv apr-util-1.4.1 apr-util

Lets configure it now :
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-so --enable-deflate --enable-expires --enable-headers --enable-rewrite --with-included-apr --with-included-apr-util
make
make install

Following this tutorial i was able to install Apache 2.4.1 successfully on CentOS 6.2. If you are unable to install or having difficulty you can leave a comment and i will try to respond you quickly as much possible.

 

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