Download
Download:
wget http://mirrors.gigenet.com/apache//httpd/httpd-2.4.41.tar.gz
tar -xvf httpd-2.4.41.tar.gz
cd httpd-2.4.41
Compile and install:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache24
make
make install
Copy the old configure files to new location, then load following modules to save troubles:
LoadModule unixd_module modules/mod_unixd.so
LoadModule access_compat_module modules/mod_access_compat.so
LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule socache_shmcb_module modules/mod_socache_shmcb.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule slotmem_shm_module modules/mod_slotmem_shm.so
Test:
./bin/apachectl -t
Installation issues
“APR not found” issue
./configure
checking for chosen layout... Apache
checking for working mkdir -p... yes
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
configure:
configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library...
configure:
checking for APR... no
configure: error: APR not found. Please read the documentation.
Solution:
sudo apt-get install libapr1-dev libaprutil1-dev
pcre-config issue
checking for pcre-config... false
configure: error: pcre-config for libpcre not found. PCRE is required and available from http://pcre.org/
Solution:
sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev
Upgrading issues
Common issues while upgrading Apache from 2.2 to 2.4 are summarized at: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/upgrading.html.
Mutex issue
AH00548: NameVirtualHost has no effect and will be removed in the next release /usr/local/apache24/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:20 AH00526: Syntax error on line 72 of /usr/local/apache24/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf: Invalid Mutex directory in argument file:/usr/local/apache24/logs/ssl_mutex
Solution: replace SSLMutex with Mutex default 1.
Options issue
AH00526: Syntax error on line 37 of /usr/local/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf: Either all Options must start with + or -, or no Option may.
Solution: mark the option with + like Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks 2.
DefaultType issue
AH00117: Ignoring deprecated use of DefaultType in line 59 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.
Solution: comment “DefaultType text/plain” 3.
Invalid command ‘UserDir’
Solution:
LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
.
Cannot load authn_default_module/authz_default_module
According to the official documentation, these modules have been removed in 2.4: mod_authn_default, mod_authz_default, mod_mem_cache.
invalid command ‘Order’
Solution:
LoadModule access_compat_module modules/mod_access_compat.so