Install mod_proxy from apache source
Installing everything from source as usual results in leaner installation so that's the way I prefer to go on production servers. Also, the stop/start and restart time gives us less down time when not including dynamic shared object modules. So no dynamic modules is a plus even though it's less flexible and has a steeper learning curve.
To enable mod_proxy with necessary modules run the command below:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2.0 \
--enable-proxy \
--enable-proxy-connect \
--enable-proxy-http
Note: the backslash lets you spread out a single command over more than one lines, which improves readability. So after the backslash once you press return the command will not be executed.
If you need to access files using ftp then add --enable-proxy-ftp to you list of modules when executing the above command.
Dynamic vs. Static
./configure --enable-proxy=static will build mod_proxy linked statically into the resulting httpd executable; this is the default if you specify ./configure --enable-proxy. ./configure --enable-proxy=shared is necessary to build the module as a loadable shared library.
Similarly, ./configure --enable-modules=proxy will link mod_proxy statically into the executable, while ./configure --enable-mods-shared=proxy will cause it to be built as a shared library. See the Apache configure documentation for more details.
Apache configure/installation/build from source Help
run the command ./configure --help to get the below output of the options available for configuring apache before building and installing it.`configure' configures this package to adapt to many kinds of systems.
Usage: ./configure [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
To assign environment variables (e.g., CC, CFLAGS...), specify them as
VAR=VALUE. See below for descriptions of some of the useful variables.
Defaults for the options are specified in brackets.
Configuration:
-h, --help display this help and exit
--help=short display options specific to this package
--help=recursive display the short help of all the included packages
-V, --version display version information and exit
-q, --quiet, --silent do not print `checking...' messages
--cache-file=FILE cache test results in FILE [disabled]
-C, --config-cache alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'
-n, --no-create do not create output files
--srcdir=DIR find the sources in DIR [configure dir or `..']
Installation directories:
--prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
[/usr/local/apache2]
--exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX
[PREFIX]
By default, `make install' will install all the files in
`/usr/local/apache2/bin', `/usr/local/apache2/lib' etc. You can specify
an installation prefix other than `/usr/local/apache2' using `--prefix',
for instance `--prefix=$HOME'.
For better control, use the options below.
Fine tuning of the installation directories:
--bindir=DIR user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
--sbindir=DIR system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
--libexecdir=DIR program executables [EPREFIX/libexec]
--sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]
--sharedstatedir=DIR modifiable architecture-independent data [PREFIX/com]
--localstatedir=DIR modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
--libdir=DIR object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
--includedir=DIR C header files [PREFIX/include]
--oldincludedir=DIR C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include]
--datarootdir=DIR read-only arch.-independent data root [PREFIX/share]
--datadir=DIR read-only architecture-independent data [DATAROOTDIR]
--infodir=DIR info documentation [DATAROOTDIR/info]
--localedir=DIR locale-dependent data [DATAROOTDIR/locale]
--mandir=DIR man documentation [DATAROOTDIR/man]
--docdir=DIR documentation root [DATAROOTDIR/doc/PACKAGE]
--htmldir=DIR html documentation [DOCDIR]
--dvidir=DIR dvi documentation [DOCDIR]
--pdfdir=DIR pdf documentation [DOCDIR]
--psdir=DIR ps documentation [DOCDIR]
System types:
--build=BUILD configure for building on BUILD [guessed]
--host=HOST cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST [BUILD]
--target=TARGET configure for building compilers for TARGET [HOST]
Optional Features:
--disable-option-checking ignore unrecognized --enable/--with options
--disable-FEATURE do not include FEATURE (same as --enable-FEATURE=no)
--enable-FEATURE[=ARG] include FEATURE [ARG=yes]
--enable-layout=LAYOUT
--enable-v4-mapped Allow IPv6 sockets to handle IPv4 connections
--enable-exception-hook Enable fatal exception hook
--enable-maintainer-mode
Turn on debugging and compile time warnings
--enable-pie Build httpd as a Position Independent Executable
--enable-modules=MODULE-LIST
Space-separated list of modules to enable | "all" |
"most"
--enable-mods-shared=MODULE-LIST
Space-separated list of shared modules to enable |
"all" | "most"
--disable-authn-file file-based authentication control
--enable-authn-dbm DBM-based authentication control
--enable-authn-anon anonymous user authentication control
--enable-authn-dbd SQL-based authentication control
--disable-authn-default authentication backstopper
--enable-authn-alias auth provider alias
--disable-authz-host host-based authorization control
--disable-authz-groupfile
'require group' authorization control
--disable-authz-user 'require user' authorization control
--enable-authz-dbm DBM-based authorization control
--enable-authz-owner 'require file-owner' authorization control
--enable-authnz-ldap LDAP based authentication
--disable-authz-default authorization control backstopper
--disable-auth-basic basic authentication
--enable-auth-digest RFC2617 Digest authentication
--enable-isapi isapi extension support
--enable-file-cache File cache
--enable-cache dynamic file caching
--enable-disk-cache disk caching module
--enable-mem-cache memory caching module
--enable-dbd Apache DBD Framework
--enable-bucketeer buckets manipulation filter
--enable-dumpio I/O dump filter
--enable-echo ECHO server
--enable-example example and demo module
--enable-case-filter example uppercase conversion filter
--enable-case-filter-in example uppercase conversion input filter
--enable-reqtimeout Limit time waiting for request from client
--enable-ext-filter external filter module
--disable-include Server Side Includes
--disable-filter Smart Filtering
--enable-substitute response content rewrite-like filtering
--disable-charset-lite character set translation
--enable-charset-lite character set translation
--enable-deflate Deflate transfer encoding support
--enable-ldap LDAP caching and connection pooling services
--disable-log-config logging configuration
--enable-log-forensic forensic logging
--enable-logio input and output logging
--disable-env clearing/setting of ENV vars
--enable-mime-magic automagically determining MIME type
--enable-cern-meta CERN-type meta files
--enable-expires Expires header control
--enable-headers HTTP header control
--enable-ident RFC 1413 identity check
--enable-usertrack user-session tracking
--enable-unique-id per-request unique ids
--disable-setenvif basing ENV vars on headers
--disable-version determining httpd version in config files
--enable-proxy Apache proxy module
--enable-proxy-connect Apache proxy CONNECT module
--enable-proxy-ftp Apache proxy FTP module
--enable-proxy-http Apache proxy HTTP module
--enable-proxy-scgi Apache proxy SCGI module
--enable-proxy-ajp Apache proxy AJP module
--enable-proxy-balancer Apache proxy BALANCER module
--enable-ssl SSL/TLS support (mod_ssl)
--enable-distcache Select distcache support in mod_ssl
--enable-optional-hook-export
example optional hook exporter
--enable-optional-hook-import
example optional hook importer
--enable-optional-fn-import
example optional function importer
--enable-optional-fn-export
example optional function exporter
--enable-static-support Build a statically linked version of the support
binaries
--enable-static-htpasswd
Build a statically linked version of htpasswd
--enable-static-htdigest
Build a statically linked version of htdigest
--enable-static-rotatelogs
Build a statically linked version of rotatelogs
--enable-static-logresolve
Build a statically linked version of logresolve
--enable-static-htdbm Build a statically linked version of htdbm
--enable-static-ab Build a statically linked version of ab
--enable-static-checkgid
Build a statically linked version of checkgid
--enable-static-htcacheclean
Build a statically linked version of htcacheclean
--enable-static-httxt2dbm
Build a statically linked version of httxt2dbm
--enable-http HTTP protocol handling
--disable-mime mapping of file-extension to MIME
--enable-dav WebDAV protocol handling
--disable-status process/thread monitoring
--disable-autoindex directory listing
--disable-asis as-is filetypes
--enable-info server information
--enable-suexec set uid and gid for spawned processes
--disable-cgid CGI scripts
--enable-cgi CGI scripts
--disable-cgi CGI scripts
--enable-cgid CGI scripts
--enable-dav-fs DAV provider for the filesystem
--enable-dav-lock DAV provider for generic locking
--enable-vhost-alias mass virtual hosting module
--disable-negotiation content negotiation
--disable-dir directory request handling
--enable-imagemap server-side imagemaps
--disable-actions Action triggering on requests
--enable-speling correct common URL misspellings
--disable-userdir mapping of requests to user-specific directories
--disable-alias mapping of requests to different filesystem parts
--enable-rewrite rule based URL manipulation
--enable-so DSO capability
Optional Packages:
--with-PACKAGE[=ARG] use PACKAGE [ARG=yes]
--without-PACKAGE do not use PACKAGE (same as --with-PACKAGE=no)
--with-included-apr Use bundled copies of APR/APR-Util
--with-apr=PATH prefix for installed APR or the full path to
apr-config
--with-apr-util=PATH prefix for installed APU or the full path to
apu-config
--with-pcre=PATH Use external PCRE library
--with-port=PORT Port on which to listen (default is 80)
--with-sslport=SSLPORT Port on which to securelisten (default is 443)
--with-z=DIR use a specific zlib library
--with-sslc=DIR RSA SSL-C SSL/TLS toolkit
--with-ssl=DIR OpenSSL SSL/TLS toolkit
--with-mpm=MPM Choose the process model for Apache to use.
MPM={beos|event|worker|prefork|mpmt_os2}
--with-module=module-type:module-file
Enable module-file in the modules/
directory.
--with-program-name alternate executable name
--with-suexec-bin Path to suexec binary
--with-suexec-caller User allowed to call SuExec
--with-suexec-userdir User subdirectory
--with-suexec-docroot SuExec root directory
--with-suexec-uidmin Minimal allowed UID
--with-suexec-gidmin Minimal allowed GID
--with-suexec-logfile Set the logfile
--with-suexec-safepath Set the safepath
--with-suexec-umask umask for suexec'd process
Some influential environment variables:
CC C compiler command
CFLAGS C compiler flags
LDFLAGS linker flags, e.g. -L if you have libraries in a
nonstandard directory
LIBS libraries to pass to the linker, e.g. -l
CPPFLAGS (Objective) C/C++ preprocessor flags, e.g. -I if
you have headers in a nonstandard directory
CPP C preprocessor
Use these variables to override the choices made by `configure' or to help
it to find libraries and programs with nonstandard names/locations.
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