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Building Apache 2.0.59, with mod_deflate and mod_ssl

Building a Web Server, for Linux

Requirements

  • Perl
  • zlib [built and installed, shared libs] : mod_deflate
  • OpenSSL [built and installed, shared libs] : mod_ssl

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Our Configuration

  • Install to : /usr/local/httpd-2.0.59, with symlink /usr/local/apache2
  • Module type : dynamically loaded modules, *.so
  • Additional modules : mod_ssl, mod_deflate, mod_logio

Configuration Options

Displays a list of configuration options...

...httpd-2.0.59]# ./configure -h

Build Instructions

Configure

Configure the Apache build with mod_ssl and mod_deflate...

...httpd-2.0.59]# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/httpd-2.0.59 --enable-mods-shared=all --enable-logio --enable-deflate --enable-ssl --with-z=/usr/local --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl
  • --prefix=/usr/local/httpd-2.0.59
    [this is the installation location; default is /usr/local/apache2 -- which we will symlink]
  • --enable-mods-shared=all
    [build all standard modules in the package (still excludes some modules); build as loadable modules (.so)]
  • --enable-logio
    [enable mod_logio: input and output logging]
  • --enable-deflate
    [enable mod_deflate: deflate transfer encoding support]
  • --enable-ssl
    [enable mod_ssl: SSL/TLS support]
  • --with-z=DIR
    [use a specific zlib library (mod_deflate)]
    [if user built zlib using our Guide (installing to /usr/local) -- DIR=/usr/local]
  • --with-ssl=DIR
    [use a specific SSL/TLS toolkit (OpenSSL)]
    [if user built openssl using our Guide (installing to /usr/local/ssl) -- DIR=/usr/local/ssl]
[sanity check] Generated Output

Verify that the configuration proccess has detected and enabled mod_ssl and mod_deflate correctly...

mod_deflate...

checking whether to enable mod_deflate... checking dependencies
  adding "-I/usr/local/include" to INCLUDES
  adding "-L/usr/local/lib" to LDFLAGS
  setting LIBS to "-lz"
checking for zlib library... found
checking zutil.h usability... yes
checking zutil.h presence... yes
checking for zutil.h... yes
checking whether to enable mod_deflate... shared (all)

mod_ssl...

checking whether to enable mod_ssl... checking dependencies
checking for SSL/TLS toolkit base... /usr/local/ssl
checking for SSL/TLS toolkit version... OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006
checking for SSL/TLS toolkit includes... /usr/local/ssl/include
checking for SSL/TLS toolkit libraries... /usr/local/ssl/lib
  adding "-I/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl" to INCLUDES
  adding "-I/usr/local/ssl/include" to INCLUDES
  adding "-L/usr/local/ssl/lib" to LDFLAGS
...
checking whether to enable mod_ssl... shared (all)
Build and Install

Before proceeding with make...

Make sure files 'libcrypto.so.0.9.8' and 'libssl.so.0.9.8' have been symlinked or copied from '/usr/local/ssl/lib' to '/lib'. This library location seems to be hardcoded for these libs under httpd make build.

If these files are not present, make will fail with message...
./dftables: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [.../httpd-2.0.59/srclib/pcre/chartables.c] Error 127

Build and Install Apache...

  • ...httpd-2.0.59]# make
  • ...httpd-2.0.59]# make install
[sanity check] Runtime Linker

Verify that binary 'httpd' is linking against the correct zlib and ssl libraries...

...]# ldd /usr/local/httpd-2.0.59/bin/httpd
  • libz.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1 ...
  • libssl.so.0.9.8 => /lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 ...
  • libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 ...
Symlink

Form symlink from '/usr/local/httpd-2.0.59' to '/usr/local/apache2'

  • ...]# cd /usr/local
  • /usr/local]# ln -s httpd-2.0.59 apache2

Configuration Files

  • Edit /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf if needed.
  • Edit /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.conf if needed.
  • Note that if "localhost" will be used, make sure that file /etc/hosts contains line...
    • 127.0.0.1 <tab> localhost.localdomain <tab> localhost

SSL Private/Public Key Setup

To be able to accept 'https://...' requests, a private/public key-pair is required.

Create directories that will store certificate and key...

  • ...]# mkdir /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.crt
  • ...]# mkdir /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key

Create a certificate signing request (server.csr) and private key (privkey.pem)...

...]# openssl req -new -out server.csr

Remove pass-phrase from private key (privkey.pem), creating server.key...

...]# openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out server.key

Create a self-signed certificate, server.crt (public key)...

...]# openssl x509 -in server.csr -out server.crt -req -signkey server.key -days 365

Remove file '.rnd' which contains entropy information, and could be used to re-create keys...

...]# rm .rnd

Remove file 'privkey.pem' as we have no use for it...

...]# rm privkey.pem

Keep file 'server.csr' if you plan on self-signing any more keys and you want the authority to match up exactly, otherwise delete it...

...]# rm server.csr

Move the created certificate and key to their proper locations...

  • ...]# mv server.crt /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.crt
  • ...]# mv server.key /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key

Update Configuration Files

Mod_deflate and mod_ssl require several additions and updates to be made to httpd.conf, the Apache2 configuration file.

Open /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf, add the following...

<Location />
	<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
		#compress content with type html, text, and css
		AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css
		<IfModule mod_headers.c>
			#properly handle requests coming from behind proxies
			Header append Vary User-Agent
		</IfModule>
	</IfModule>
</Location>

#properly handle old browsers that do not support compression
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
	BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
</IfModule>

Startup and Operation

Start the Apache2 [httpd] Server

Start regular (port 80) apache2 daemon...

/usr/local/apache2/bin]# ./apachectl start

Start regular and ssl (port 80 and 443) apache2 daemon...

/usr/local/apache2/bin]# ./apachectl startssl
Stop Apache2 [httpd] Server
/usr/local/apache2/bin]# ./apachectl stop
Restart Apache2 [httpd] Server

Restart Apache2 Server...

/usr/local/apache2/bin]# ./apachectl restart

Graceful restart Apache2 Server, without losing any existing or pending connections from clients...

/usr/local/apache2/bin]# ./apachectl graceful

Help

List available command line options...

/usr/local/apache2/bin]# ./apachectl -h

List compiled in modules...

/usr/local/apache2/bin]# ./apachectl -l

Show version and compile settings...

/usr/local/apache2/bin]# ./apachectl -V

Testing