Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:12:44 -0400 From: Nicholas Henry <nicholas.henry@gmail.com> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Apache 2 with custom options Message-ID: <ee11ef4a0506301212771017e4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42C40280.8050900@dial.pipex.com> References: <ee11ef4a05061916025e0d120@mail.gmail.com> <ee11ef4a05062010292cad8e14@mail.gmail.com> <42B70245.6030108@dial.pipex.com> <ee11ef4a0506300700787d2f8@mail.gmail.com> <42C40280.8050900@dial.pipex.com>
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Thanks for your help, Alex. I found what I was looking for here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/031160.ht= ml If was the: # make WITH_EXTRA_MODULES Cheers, Nicholas On 6/30/05, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > Nicholas Henry wrote: >=20 > >Thank you for your reply. I guess I was under the assumption that the > >Apache port would come "pre-configured" with some options. So I didn't > >want to do a "configure" and overwrite what is there. So can you > >confirm that it isn't pre-configured anyway? Are any of the ports have > >configurations set? > > > > > I'm still not clear what you mean by "pre-configured". Do you mean > "comes with a standard configuration file for when it runs" then, yes it > does, though you will have to edit it to suit your needs. Since you > have the port installed, you must have done this. >=20 > If you mean "does it pick some standard options at compile time", then > yes, it probably does, but obviously it did not include the proxy module > you wanted, so you will have to do something when you make apache2 to > get it added. If I remember correctly, if you just type "make > show-options" and it will tell you what to do. >=20 > Many ports do have pre-defined, standard, compile-time options which > they use. Other ports will stop and ask you which of the many options > you want to choose. In both cases, *something* is picked as the > default, but it may not be what you want. Since your original question > was about installing the proxy module, my suggestion was not just to add > that, but also to look at the other modules *now* and add any you > reasonably think you *might* need just to save installing all over again. >=20 > Apache is about the most complicated port, with respect to the > compile-time options, that you may ever install. There are so many > bells, whistles, alternatives and other hoopla, that it makes sense to > see what there is and try and take some informed guesstimates at which > of those you want. Get it right once and you can forget about it. >=20 > See my previous message for how to make sure that portupgrade will use > the same options, if you ever need to remake the port. >=20 > Hope that helps, >=20 > --Alex >=20 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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