From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 23:24:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85DA37B5D2 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 23:24:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA97864; Tue, 30 May 2000 01:23:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 01:23:30 -0500 (CDT) From: BWS - Offwhite To: Joel Eusebio Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: applications In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you hope to install something like apache from source code, you have a couple options. You can either install it from the FreeBSD ports collection or download the tarball from apache.org. The first one of the two is the easiest. If you do not have the ports collection installed, you can install it with /stand/sysinstall. After you have the ports collection ready, you will find it at /usr/ports. Briefly, the ports collection is a skeleton of 1000's of applications you can easily install on your FreeBSD box. Any patches that are needed to make the general source code work for FreeBSD will be applied automatically during the simple install process. There are a few options for installing an apache server. You can look around to decide what you want. The basic server is at... /usr/ports/www/apache13 Go to the directory and run the following command. make make install These two commands will download apache 1.3 source code, compile all binaries and place all new files where they belong, including placing man pages and docs on your FreeBSD box where you can make use of them. Since I like to work apache into my own configuration with mod_perl and mod_rewrite I do not like using the ports collection to install apache. If you want to install it directly from the source so you can use the APACI system to install apache with additional modules, you can follow the install instructions in the INSTALL file. The instructions are rather detailed as there are many things that you can do. In fact, there are so many things that you can do that I created several scripts for different kinds of installs. One compiles in mod_perl with suid, another for mod_jserv and mod_perl and other variations. It took some time to learn to do it right, but it really is very interesting. Once you compile apache a few times you will be able to tackle other applications more easily. Good Luck! Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? http://www.greasydaemon.com/noms/ <- Why avoid MS? On Tue, 30 May 2000, Joel Eusebio wrote: > Hi All, > I am very new to FreeBSD, I've just installed a day ago. Can someone help > me on how to install packages that has been downloaded from the net??? For > example an apache package that is on the .tar format??? Thanks a lot. > > ------------------->jOEl > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message