Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition

Rebuild Apache

When that was over, we went back to the Apache directory (/usr/src/apache/apache_1.3.19) and deleted everything. This is an essential step: without it, the process will almost certainly fail. The simple method is to go to the previous directory (in our case /usr/src/apache), making sure that the tarball apache_1.3.19.tar was still there, and run the following:

 rm -r apache_1.3.19

We then reinstalled all the Apache sources with the following:

tar xvf apache_1_3_19.tar

When that was done we moved down into .../apache_1.3.19, re-unpacked Apache-SSL, and ran FixPatch, a script which inserted path(s) to the OpenSSL elements into the Apache build scripts. If this doesn’t work or you don’t want to be so bold, you can achieve the same results with a more manual method:

patch -p1 < SSLpatch

The README.SSL file in .../apache_1.3.19 says that you will then have to “set SSL_* in src/Configuration to appropriate values unless you ran FixPatch.” Since FixPatch produces:

SSL_BASE=/usr/local/ssl
SSL_INCLUDE= -I$(SSL_BASE)/include
SSL_CFLAGS= -DAPACHE_SSL
SSL_LIB_DIR=/usr/local/ssl/lib
SSL_LIBS= -L$(SSL_LIB_DIR) -lssl -lcrypto
SSL_APP_DIR=/usr/local/ssl/bin
SSL_APP=/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl

you would need to reproduce all these settings by hand in .../src/Configuration.

If you want to include any other modules into Apache, now is the moment to edit the .../src/Configuration file as described in Chapter 1. We now have to rebuild Apache. Having moved into the .../src directory, the command ...