Apache Cookbook, 2nd Edition

1.5. Installing with ApacheToolbox

Problem

You have a complicated collection of modules you want to install correctly.

Solution

Download ApacheToolbox from http://www.apachetoolbox.com/. (Note that the version numbers will probably be different than these, which were the latest available when this section was written.) Unpack the file:

% bunzip2 Apachetoolbox-1.5.65.tar.bz2
%tar xvf Apachetoolbox-1.5.65.tar

(Depending on your version of tar, you may be able to combine these operations into a single tar xjvf command.)

Then run the installation script:

# cd Apachetoolbox-1.5.65
#./install.sh

Discussion

ApacheToolbox is developed and maintained by Bryan Andrews. It is a shell script that assists in the configuration and installation of Apache. It includes support for over 100 commonly used or standard modules.

When you run the script, you select modules from lists appearing on various screens. Once you have decided on your list of modules, ApacheToolbox downloads the third-party modules you have selected and the tools that you don’t have installed, and then runs the Apache configure script with any arguments needed to create the combination you have requested.

The main screen (see Figure 1-11) lists the most popular third-party modules that ApacheToolbox can install. Select or deselect a particular module by typing the number next to that module’s name.

Figure 1-11. Main screen of ApacheToolbox ...