Greetings fellow PLUGgers! I'm used to custom compiling my PostgreSQL, PHP and Apache servers. I used to do this without hassle in Red Hat-flavored Linux distros like CentOS and WhiteBox.
Here's my custom compilation script to build PHP and Apache: groupadd apache; useradd -g apache -d /home/httpd apache; cd /var/tmp/apache_1.3.33/ export OPTIM="-O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer"; export CFLAGS="-DDYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=0"; ./configure --prefix=/home/httpd --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/lib/www --includedir=/usr/include/apache --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf --localstatedir=/var --runtimedir=/var/run --logfiledir=/var/log/httpd --datadir=/home/httpd --mandir=/usr/share/man; cd /var/tmp/php-5.1.2/; export CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer"; ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-exec-dir=/usr/bin --with-apache=../apache_1.3.33 --with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd --with-ttf --with-jpeg --with-png --with-pgsql --without-mysql --with-gettext --enable-wddx --enable-inline-optimization; gmake; gmake install; cd /var/tmp/apache_1.3.33/ export OPTIM="-O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer"; export CFLAGS="-DDYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=0"; ./configure --prefix=/home/httpd --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/lib/www --includedir=/usr/include/apache --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf --localstatedir=/var --runtimedir=/var/run --logfiledir=/var/log/httpd --datadir=/home/httpd --mandir=/usr/share/man --activate-module=src/modules/php5/libphp5.a --enable-module=php5 --disable-module=status --disable-module=userdir --disable-module=negotiation --disable-module=autoindex --disable-module=imap --server-uid=apache --server-gid=apache; gmake; gmake install; #rm -f /usr/sbin/apachectl; rm -f /usr/share/man/man8/apachectl.8; rm -rf /home/httpd/icons/; rm -rf /home/httpd/htdocs/; rm -f /home/httpd/cgi-bin/printenv; rm -f /home/httpd/cgi-bin/test-cgi; rm -rf /var/cache/httpd/; rm -f /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf; rm -f /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf.default; rm -f /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf; rm -f /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf.default; rm -f /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types.default; rm -f /etc/httpd/conf/magic.default; cd /var/tmp/php-5.1.2/; install -m644 php.ini-dist /etc/httpd/php.ini; As you can see, I prefer to custom compile to get only the more required components and to have a secure build of Apache with PHP (aside from the advantage of getting the preferred version of software to use). I have used this exact build script in OpenBSD with success. Recently, I tried out Debian 3.1 and I liked the net installation procedure, reminding me of the joy (or pain!) of installing OpenBSD. By default GCC is installed so I was about to compile my apps when I was surprised not to find my old friend "/etc/rc.local". I'm not very well versed in writing daemon startup scripts for "/etc/rc.d/init.d/" in my old distro so I find "/etc/rc.local" a convenient way to start it up fast without digging deep on daemon start and stop scripts. How do I start custom compiled daemons in Debian? Any pointers please? Thank you very much! -- Tito Mari Francis H. Escaño Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
