DO IT YOURSELF

This tutorial is meant for fine tuning and feeding custom needs.

Tested on a Suse Linux 8.1

Apache 1.3.27 with DSO, MOD_SSL, MOD_PERL, PHP/PHPA, GD2, ZLIB

Never heard about a DSO or Static build?
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/dso.html

Reasons for selecting a DSO build rather then a Static are mainly

• flexibility
• less maintance

The Build

killall httpd

Here are we gonna place the Sources

mkdir /root/software

cd /root/software

Get the sources

wget http://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/general/infosys/www/daemons/apache/dist/httpd/apache_1.3.27.tar.gz

wget http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-2.0.12.tar.gz

wget http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/src/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz

wget http://downloads.php.net/jani/php-4.3.2RC2.tar.gz

wget http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-1.0-current.tar.gz

Unpack the Apache source

tar xzf apache_1.3.27.tar.gz

Apply MOD_SSL to the Apache source. If you can't configure install OpenSSL it might be missing(use yast)

cd /root/software/mod_ssl-2.8.14-1.3.27

 

tar xzf mod_ssl-2.8.14-1.3.27.tar.gz

./configure --with-apache=/root/software/apache_1.3.27

Do we need to remove old SSL Certificates? If you don't know. Skip this

rm -R /etc/httpd/ssl.crt

rm -R /etc/httpd/ssl.key

rm -R /etc/httpd/ssl.crl

rm -R /etc/httpd/ssl.csr

rm -R /etc/httpd/ssl.prm

Building the beloved Apache

cd /root/software/apache_1.3.27

./configure --with-layout=SuSE 

--enable-module=most 

--enable-shared=max 

--disable-module=auth_db 

--server-uid=wwwrun 

--server-gid=www 

--disable-suexec

make && make certificate TYPE=custom && make install

Comment: I wasn't able to build the auth_db as DSO properly. So I excluded it.

Here is a sample for a self signed certificate

Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:DE

State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:Niedersachsen

Locality Name (eg, city) []:Hannover

Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:xrow GbR

Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Root-Server

Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []:*.xrow.net

Email Address []:postmaster@xrow.net

Comments: * is a wildcard to set the certificate vaild for every host/subdomain of xrow.de. xrow.de itself is not valid SSL host.

Build DSO mod_perl

tar xzf mod_perl-1.0-current.tar.gz

cd /root/software/mod_perl-1.27

perl Makefile.PL 

 USE_APXS=1 

 WITH_APXS=/usr/sbin/apxs 

 EVERYTHING=1 

make && make test && make install

Zlib (Usefull for output compression)

tar xzf zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz

cd /root/software/zlib-1.1.4

./configure --prefix=/usr

make && make install

Install GD2

tar xzf gd-2.0.12.tar.gz

cd /root/software/gd-2.0.12

./configure --prefix=/usr

Comment: After installing Exponential you migth want to check, if the variable hasGD2 is set to true in the ini files.

Install PHP (DSO usage under Apache)

tar xzf php-4.3.1.tar.gz

cd /root/software/php-4.3.1

./configure --prefix=/usr/share 

--datadir=/usr/share/php 

--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs i586-suse-linux 

--bindir=/usr/bin 

--libdir=/usr/share 

--includedir=/usr/include 

--with-_lib=lib 

--with-config-file-path=/etc 

--with-exec-dir=/usr/lib/php/bin 

--with-mysql 

--disable-debug 

--enable-bcmath 

--enable-calendar 

--enable-ftp 

--enable-inline-optimization 

--enable-magic-quotes 

--enable-mbstr-enc-trans 

--enable-mbstring 

--enable-track-vars 

--enable-trans-sid 

--with-bz2 

--with-dom=/usr/include/libxml2 

--with-ftp 

--with-mcrypt 

--with-xml 

--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 

--with-curl 

--with-zlib-dir=yes 

--with-gd 

--with-jpeg-dir=/usr 

 

make && make install

Copy the default configuration

cp php.ini-dist /etc/php.ini

Edit your php.ini

; Safe Mode

;

safe_mode = Off

 

max_execution_time = 180   ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds

max_input_time = 300   ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data

memory_limit = 32M     ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)

If you also want the install the PHP Accelerator then do the following

wget http://www.phpaccelerator.co.uk/releases/linux_i686-glibc2.1.3/1.3.3r2_4.3.0/php_accelerator-1.3.3r2_php-4.3.0_linux_i686-glibc2.1.3.tgz

tar zxf php_accelerator-1.3.3r2_php-4.3.0_linux_i686-glibc2.1.3.tgz

mv php_accelerator-1.3.3r2_php-4.3.0_linux_i686-glibc2.1.3 /usr/local/lib/php_accelerator

edit /etc/php.ini again and add

;phpa     

zend_extension="/usr/local/lib/php_accelerator/php_accelerator_1.3.3r2.so"

Restart Apache and install Exponential.

httpd restart

If you somehow got mess up try to clean everything and restart

rm -Rf apache_1.3.27

rm -Rf zlib-1.1.4

rm -Rf php-4.3.1

rm -Rf mod_ssl-2.8.14-1.3.27

rm -Rf openssl-0.9.6g

rm -Rf gd-2.0.12