From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 30 19:12:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8215016A41C for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:12:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nicholas.henry@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E1743D1D for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:12:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nicholas.henry@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z6so97041nzd for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:12:46 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DEVNzwI9JdnFKZ1BRimx15lzeBmG9tg8ANbZCQoJE9A3UgjySwvISWJDmuKwmuI/Wq4+I2dXUDH03HAKXV6wacFWPI8ZRzrm43Tfet5XI/YwxuiIM6F//qIJR2LDl2z8Qb8a43awPAjBns2IPtImnixy/3MWC3JYEZBzBrQMKsM= Received: by 10.36.88.15 with SMTP id l15mr408289nzb; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.81.9 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:12:44 -0400 From: Nicholas Henry To: Alex Zbyslaw In-Reply-To: <42C40280.8050900@dial.pipex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <42B70245.6030108@dial.pipex.com> <42C40280.8050900@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Apache 2 with custom options X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nicholas Henry List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:12:47 -0000 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 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" >