Installing Apache for LAMP

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These notes are for a LAMP installation using Apache 2.x and mod_perl 2.x

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The software

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Installation

Installing Apache (2.x) 

 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --with-mpm=prefork --enable-so
 make
 make install

If you wish to add SSL, you can add the following options: 

 --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl --enable-ssl=shared 
 --enable-mods-shared=all

Installing Perl (5.8.7) 

 sh Configure -Dcc=gcc -Uusethreads -Dprefix=/usr -des
 make
 make test
 make install

Installing mod_perl and Apache::DBI (2.x) 

 perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs
 make
 make test
 make install

 perl -MCPAN -e 'install Apache::DBI'

Installing Apache HTTP Request Library (2.x)

To use --enable-perl-glue you may need to first install the Perl module ExtUtils::XSBuilder::ParseSource: 

 perl -MCPAN -e 'install ExtUtils::XSBuilder::ParseSource'

 ./configure --with-apache2-apxs=/path/to/apache2/bin/apxs --enable-perl-glue
 make
 make test
 make install
 make clean

Installing PHP (5.x) 

 ./configure --with-apxs2=/path/to/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql --with-zlib
 make
 make test
 make install
 make clean

If you intend to use Perl's PHP::Interpreter, use: 

 ./configure --with-mysql --with-zlib --enable-embed --enable-maintainer-zts

There are some problems with using PHP::Interpreter with APXS as posted on codecomments.com (http://www.codecomments.com/PERL_PHP_module/message688233-1.html)

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Configure Apache

The following are useful edits to the Apache 2.x httpd.conf file

To enable mod_perl load the following modules. PHP edits the httpd.conf file for you so it should already be there. 

 LoadModule apreq_module  modules/mod_apreq2.so
 LoadModule perl_module   modules/mod_perl.so

To use Apache::DBI include the following line: 

 PerlModule Apache::DBI

To use a mod_perl startup.pl file, include the following line: 

 PerlRequire /path/to/apache2/bin/startup.pl

Use .htaccess files, comment out the following line where appropriate: 

 #AllowOverride None

To stop Apache from filling the error_log with favicon requests 

 Redirect 404 /favicon.ico
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