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Tomcat: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
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Tomcat: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

by Jason Brittain, Ian F. Darwin
October 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
496 pages
16h 50m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Installing Apache httpd

If you are starting fresh without a copy of Apache httpd, you can download precompiled binaries of Apache httpd from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi. If you are running Linux or Mac OS X, your operating system probably already came with a version of Apache httpd. But, there are likely newer versions available with more bugs fixed and more capability. Find out which one your operating system includes, and look on the above download link to see how it compares to today's release version. Try running httpd -version on the command-line shell in your operating system to see which version you have.

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Showing all the intricacies of building and installing Apache httpd on the various operating systems is beyond the scope of this book. To read about httpd in detail, see Apache: The Definitive Guide by Ben and Peter Laurie (O'Reilly). If your operating system is a non-Windows operating system, it is likely that it came with a version of Apache httpd. Some of these are old versions by the time you get them, and some are not. Make sure to try:

# httpd -version

to see the version number and:

# httpd -l

to see the compiled-in configuration and modules (any loadable modules will not be listed here—they are separate).

On Windows, you can simply download the MSI installer binary release and install Apache httpd that way. On all other operating systems, here are some generic steps for building and installing Apache httpd:

First, switch user IDs to the root user. You'll need ...

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