I'm trying to install the newest version of apache on my centos server. I did the following:
Download $ wget http://httpd.apache.org/path/to/latest/version/
Extract $ gzip -d httpd-2_0_NN.tar.gz
$ tar xvf httpd-2_0_NN.tar
Configure $ ./configure
Compile $ make
Install $ make install
Test $ PREFIX/bin/apachectl start
And that all worked except the last step, when i type apachectl start it says 'command not found'. I ran this command from /usr/local/apache2/bin/ where it is installed but no cigar. Any idea what i am doing wrong? Thanks.
Answer
It's not working because you're literally giving it the string PREFIX/bin/apachectl start instead of replacing PREFIX with the location into which you installed Apache, as the instructions you are following intend.
In your case, that's apparently /usr/local/apache2, so run
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
But, that still leaves us with the larger issue of Why Are You Doing This? The vendor packages provided by CentOS include bug fixes and security patches, and in fact are regularly updated to ensure that newly-discovered issues are fixed.
Meanwhile, Apache development within the 2.2.x branch is rather conservative, and there aren't major new features (if any!) you'll gain by going with 2.2.17 (the current latest). And, that's not even going into the fact that you seem to have gotten the rather old 2.0 version. Did you maybe want the incompatible, unstable 2.3 development version?
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