Recently I needed to install apache webserver on the MAC. It is not straight as installing via dmg. Following steps can help :
1. Download distribution from apache, unzip in into one of directory: in my case i have downloaded following version:
httpd-2.4.43.gzip unzip this and run following to install in httpd-2.4.43
. ./configure --prefix=/apache
if installed all good :) but if you get an error :
checking for APR... no
configure: error: APR not found. Please read the documentation.
Then go to next step:
2. There are couple of dependencies as below to install and build apache :
First one is apr and apr-util. - Download this from http://apr.apache.org/ and copy into
httpd-2.4.43/srclib/apr
httpd-2.4.43/srclib/apr-util.
Make sure no version mentioned, remove from folder name:
Now run again following :
./configure --with-included-apr --prefix=/apache
if installed all good :) but if you get an error :
checking for pcre-config... false
configure: error: pcre-config for libpcre not found. PCRE is required and available from http://pcre.org/
Then go to next Step
3. Install pcre : download from http://www.pcre.org/. unzip into pcer dir and run following :
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pcre
make
sudo make install
Once pcer install then go to httpd-2.4.43 dir and run again
./configure --with-included-apr --with-pcre=/usr/local/pcre/bin/pcre2-config --prefix=/apache
if shows success all good :) but if you get an error then search google since i did not get error after that :).
4. Now run make
if shows success all good but if you get an error like
& touch util_pcre.lo
util_pcre.c:58:10: fatal error: 'pcre.h' file not found
#include "pcre.h"
^~~~~~~~
then you have to link this file :
sudo ln -s /usr/local/pcre/include/pcre.h /usr/local/include/pcre.h
run make and make install.
Hope all should be good then as I did not get any issue after that ;).
Cheers !!
