Alternative Apache HowTo

Following are instructions for installing apache and mod_perl with mod_gzip and optionally mod_ssl by compiling them from source, use these instructions if you are not using a Apache 2.x front end server.

Apache, mod_perl and mod_gzip

Download the source code

The latest apache 1.3.x can be downloaded from here: http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

The latest mod_perl from here: http://perl.apache.org/download/

And mod_gzip from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-gzip/

wget ftp://mirror.positive-internet.com/apache/httpd/apache_1.3.33.tar.gz
wget ftp://mirror.positive-internet.com/apache/httpd/apache_1.3.33.tar.gz.asc
wget http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz
wget http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz.asc
wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mod-gzip/mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a.tgz

Check the sigs

gpg --recv-key 08C975E5
gpg --verify apache_1.3.33.tar.gz.asc
gpg --recv-key 88C3A5A5
gpg --verify mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz.asc

Uncompress and extract

tar -zxvf apache_1.3.33.tar.gz
tar -zxvf mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz
tar -zxvf mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a.tgz

Copy mod_gzip source into the apache source tree and edit the Makefile.tmpl:

mkdir apache_1.3.33/src/modules/gzip
cp mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a/*.c apache_1.3.33/src/modules/gzip/
cp mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a/*.h apache_1.3.33/src/modules/gzip/
cp mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a/Makefile.tmpl apache_1.3.33/src/modules/gzip/
vi apache_1.3.33/src/modules/gzip/Makefile.tmpl
:1,$s/LIB=libgzip.\$(LIBEXT)/LIB=libgzip.a/

Make and install

Make and install mod_perl with mod_gzip and apache:

cd mod_perl-1.29
perl Makefile.PL APACHE_SRC=../apache_1.3.33/src \
  DO_HTTPD=1 EVERYTHING=1 USE_APACI=1 \
  APACI_ARGS='--activate-module=src/modules/gzip/mod_gzip.c'
make
make test
su
make install
cd ../apache_1.3.33
make install

Configure mod_gzip

Add this to /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:

# mod_gzip
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
  mod_gzip_on Yes
  mod_gzip_item_include handler ^perl-script$
  mod_gzip_item_include mime text/html
  mod_gzip_item_include mime text/plain
  mod_gzip_item_include mime text/css
  mod_gzip_item_include mime application/xml
  mod_gzip_dechunk yes
  mod_gzip_min_http 1000
  mod_gzip_temp_dir /tmp
  mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
  mod_gzip_minimum_file_size  1000
  mod_gzip_maximum_file_size  0
  mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 1000000
  mod_gzip_can_negotiate Yes
</IfModule>

Start Apache

Apache can now be started:

/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start

And if you want it to start after a reboot you can add this to /etc/rc.local (sourcing the mksetenv.sh script is essential for MKDoc to work properly and you chould change the path to whereever you have MKDoc installed):

source /var/mkdoc/mksetenv.sh
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start

Apache, mod_ssl, mod_perl and mod_gzip

The following assumes that you have openssl-devel packages installed already and in their default locations, if not see the mod_perl and mod_ssl instructions on perl.apache.org for using a source disto of openssl.