1. Introduction
1.1. Contributors and Contacts
First I would thank all those people who send questions and suggestions that made a
further development of this document possible. It shows me, sharing knowledge is the right way.
I would encourage you to send me more suggestion, just write me an email <luc at delouw.ch>.
1.2. Why I wrote this document
All Linux distributions I tested had a non-optimal default setup of Apache. Additionally all major
distributions don't have current versions of Apache.
Finally most commercial Unix are delivered without pre-installed Apache, or using a very strange setup.
Since I am installing a lot of customized webservers on different Unixes therefor I wrote a
plaintext document and placed it on my website so I can access it at work. Later a friend
posted the URL to a mailinglist, and the first questions arrived. So I decided to put more information
on the page.
After a lot of people requested the document as an »official« HOWTO written in SGML,
I decided to prepare it to be one.
1.3. What this document is supposed to be
Compiling all the items described below needs a lot of configure-options that
nobody can memorize. This is supposed to be a copy-paste-ready text to compile
Apache and friends.
Also, people should learn how to build a full-featured
Apache webserver by themself to be independent from any Linux distributors.
1.4. What this document doesn't do for you
It is just a Document, not a script that makes the work for you. You have to do all the steps by yourself.
1.5. Platforms
The original document was for all major Unix platforms. Now the HOWTOs are
separated for each platform. You will find the same document adapted for:
Linux (This Document)
IBM AIX 4.3 and 5.1L
Sun Solaris 6/7/8
Hewlett-Packard HP-UX 11
{Free|Net|Open}-BSD
Important Notice for users running Linux on IBM S/390 (zSeries): PostgreSQL
and Jserv wont compile on that system.
All other programs and modules mentioned in the HOWTO are working perfectly
Other Unix platforms: Feel free to create a guest-account for me on
your Unix platform, so I can have a look at the differences.
Windows-Users: I'm sorry, I'm too young for a heart-attack, You will need to upgrade your machine
to a »real« operating system ;-)
1.6. Copyright Information
This document is copyrighted (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Luc de Louw and is
distributed under the terms of the Linux Documentation Project
(LDP) license, stated below.
Unless otherwise stated, Linux HOWTO documents are
copyrighted by their respective authors. Linux HOWTO documents may
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encouraged; however, the author would like to be notified of any
such distributions.
All translations, derivative works, or aggregate works
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from a HOWTO and impose additional restrictions on its
distribution. Exceptions to these rules may be granted under
certain conditions; please contact the Linux HOWTO coordinator at
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In short, we wish to promote dissemination of this
information through as many channels as possible. However, we do
wish to retain copyright on the HOWTO documents, and would like to
be notified of any plans to redistribute the HOWTOs.
If you have any questions, please contact
<linux-howto at metalab.unc.edu>
1.7. Disclaimer
No liability for the contents of this documents can be accepted.
Use the concepts, examples and other content at your own risk.
As this is a new edition of this document, there may be errors
and inaccuracies, that may of course be damaging to your system.
Proceed with caution, and although this is highly unlikely,
the author(s) do not take any responsibility for that.
All copyrights are held by their by their respective owners, unless
specifically noted otherwise. Use of a term in this document
should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark
or service mark.
Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen
as endorsements.
You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system
before major installation and backups at regular intervals.
1.10. Feedback
Feedback is most certainly welcome for this document. Without
your submissions and input, this document wouldn't exist. Please
send your additions, comments and critics to the following
email address : <luc at delouw.ch>.
1.11. Translations
At the moment there are translations available for:
Translations to other languages are always welcome. If you translated this document, please let
me know, so I can set a link here.
1.12. About the author
Luc (in english Luke) is 29 years old, playing around with computers since 20years.
Currently he is working as Unix System Engineer for an IT-corporation located in Kloten (Zurich), Switzerland.
Main-focus is developing all flavors of innovative Systems running on Linux (and other Un*xes) .
Further, for all major Un*x platforms all the “impossible” tasks will end up on his
desk (yes, its funny and he loves it!)
