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Installing Apache httpd Server in Solaris With SSL December 24, 2009

STEPS for installing  Apache
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0) Check UMASK — Change UMASK to 0022
umask
umask 0022 (if it is not 0022 change to this value)

1)Gzip
gzip -d httpd-2.2.11.tar.gz

2)Untar
tar xvf httpd-2.2.11.tar

3)check env variable for path
env

4) Set path for c compilers available in solaris.
PATH=/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
export PATH

5) cd httpd-2.2.11

6)Configuring. –prefix –> the loaction of installation of the server.

./configure –prefix=/app/apacheweb2.2.11/install/ –enable-proxy –enable-ssl –with-user=appuser –with-group=appgroup

7)make

8)make install

9) Open httpd.conf in conf folder of installation for making the Changes to serverName, User, group and to add Proxy configurations. (Which will discuss in detail in another post)

10) Configuting SSL (Need to change (httpd-ssl.conf for  entry “SSLCertificateFile”)
generate the ssl cerificate and put it at the below mentioned location

SSLCertificateFile “/app/apacheweb2.2.11/install//conf/server.crt”

ssl key

SSLCertificateKeyFile “/app/apacheweb2.2.11/install//conf/server.key”

Download Apache   httpd-2.2.11.tar.gz first… (Ha Ha)