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Installing Apache in linux

Follow the steps 1.Download binaries from Apache website http://httpd.apache.org/ or $ lynx http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi 2. Uncompress(Extract) the file $ gzip -d httpd-NN.tar.gz$ tar xvf httpd-NN.tar 3. Go in the directory of httpd which u have uncompressed. $ cd httpd-NN 4.Now configure the setup $ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX (PREFIX is the desired installation folder) u can also enable various module as per requirement. eg. enabling ssl and proxy modules use the following line $ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX --enable-so --enable-mods-shared="proxy cache ssl all" 5.Compile $ make 6.Install $make install 7.Test your installation. $ PREFIX/bin/apachectl -k start (PREFIX is the installation folder path) 8.You have successfully installed apache server