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authorStefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>2011-12-27 19:42:22 +0100
committerStefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>2011-12-27 19:42:22 +0100
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
------------------
For complete installation documentation, see [ht]docs/manual/install.html or
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.2/install.html
+ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/install.html
$ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX
$ make
@@ -17,17 +17,25 @@
might use "/usr/local/apache2" for PREFIX (without the
quotes).
- * If you are building on FreeBSD, be aware that threads will
- be disabled and the prefork MPM will be used by default,
- as threads do not work well with Apache on FreeBSD. If
- you wish to try a threaded Apache on FreeBSD anyway, use
- "./configure --enable-threads".
-
- * If you are building on Mac OS X (Darwin), make sure to
- use libtool 1.4.2 or newer.
-
- * If you are a developer building Apache directly from CVS,
- you will need to run ./buildconf before running configure.
+ * If you want to build a threaded MPM (for instance worker)
+ on FreeBSD, be aware that threads do not work well with
+ Apache on FreeBSD versions before 5.4-RELEASE. If you wish
+ to try a threaded Apache on an earlier version of FreeBSD,
+ use the --enable-threads parameter to ./configure in
+ addition to the --with-mpm parameter.
+
+ * If you are a developer building Apache directly from
+ Subversion, you will need to run ./buildconf before running
+ configure. This script bootstraps the build environment and
+ requires Python as well as GNU autoconf and libtool. If you
+ build Apache from a release tarball, you don't have to run
+ buildconf.
+
+ * If you are building directly from Subversion on Mac OS X
+ (Darwin), make sure to use GNU Libtool 1.4.2 or newer. All
+ recent versions of the developer tools on this platform
+ include a sufficiently recent version of GNU Libtool (named
+ glibtool, but buildconf knows where to find it).
For a short impression of what possibilities you have, here is a
typical example which configures Apache for the installation tree
@@ -48,7 +56,7 @@
---------------------
For complete documentation, see [ht]docs/manual/platform/windows.html or
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.2/platform/windows.html.
+ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html.
The Apache/Win32 binaries are primarily distributed as a Windows Installer
package (.msi), and may be available as a .zip file as well. These packages
@@ -67,8 +75,8 @@
the text "@@" to discover what you must edit. To install and start the
service after you have corrected the httpd.conf file, use the command
- bin\Apache -k install
- bin\Apache -k start
+ bin\httpd.exe -k install
+ bin\httpd.exe -k start
The .msi package configures the httpd.conf file, and installs and starts
the Apache2 service for you. It also installs plenty of useful shortcuts