On Mon, 14 May 2001, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> Joshua Slive wrote:
> >
> > I don't really see the point in having complete documentation
> > both in the manual and in the INSTALL file.
>
> There should be a file that can be viewed in one xterm while
> going through the installation process in another. It can be
> terse, but having to have a browser running to get this info
> is a bit much. INSTALL should be this file.
I understand your point, although I think most people would
just use "lynx docs/manual/install.html" in their xterm.
My problem is that I'm not sure I see a middle ground for INSTALL.
People who want the quick and terse should be running
./configure --help.
Here is what I quickly hacked INSTALL down to. If this is not sufficient,
can you (or anyone) suggest what you think should be in here.
(I don't think the stuff about FreeBSD belongs in here, but I'm not sure
where else to put it.)
APACHE INSTALLATION
Overview for the impatient
--------------------------
$ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX
$ make
$ make install
$ PREFIX/bin/apachectl start
NOTES: * PREFIX is not the string "PREFIX". Instead use the Unix
filesystem path under which Apache should be installed. For
instance use "/usr/local/apache2" for PREFIX above.
* If you are building on FreeBSD, you should add the argument
--with-mpm=prefork to the configure line. The Apache Group
has discovered that threads do not work well with Apache
on FreeBSD. For that reason, we disable threads by default
on FreeBSD, and you need to build the prefork MPM. If you
wish to try to make threads work on FreeBSD, they can be
re-enabled by using --enable-threads
* If you are a developer using the CVS version of Apache,
you will need to run ./buildconf before anything else.
For more information
--------------------
The easiest way to find all of the configuration flags for Apache
2.0 is to run "./configure --help".
Installation and configuration documentation is available in
docs/manual/install.html or at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/install.html
Thanks for using the Apache HTTP Server, Version 2.0.
The Apache Software Foundation
http://www.apache.org/
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