This tutorial will explain to Install latest version apache on ubuntu from source. This tutorial provides detailed information and step by step method to achieve this.

Apache Web Server

Apache is a very well known open-source Web Server. It is not only popular but also very old Web Server. Like any other Web Servers, Apache also accepts requests from the clients, search for the requested queries and then send the response back to them.

 

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Install latest version apache on ubuntu from source

 

Step 1 – Download the latest version of Apache from the Apache official website

Open on the following link

http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi#apache24

Right click on the latest source , currently it is httpd-2.4.46.tar.gz and click on Copy link address/Copy link location.

Create a directory on your Linux box / Ubuntu say apache

$ mkder apache

$ cd apache

Use wget command to download the package ( Paste copied link address after wget command to download )

$  wget https://mirrors.estointernet.in/apache//httpd/httpd-2.4.46.tar.gz

 

Step 2 – Extract Downloaded package and change directory to extracted folder

 $ sudo tar -xvf httpd-2.4.46.tar.gz

$ cd httpd-2.4.46/

 

Step 3 –  Configure Apache

Syntax :    ./configure -prefix=PREFIX

Say I have to install and configure the apache package at /usr/local/apache2 ( Note – Create directory /usr/local/apache2 if doesn’t exists)

 $ sudo ./configure -prefix=/usr/local/apache2

 

Apache Configure Error

If you get  error like following, install the relevant packages as follows:

For configure: error: APR not found. Please read the documentation

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