Installing Apache 2.4.3 on OSX 10.6.8

I want to set up apache for local development. What are my other options?

When I do that, the dialog box says:

Web Sharing allows users of other computers to view webpages on this computer.

I certainly don't want that.

Thanks for your help and suggestions. I actually figured out what I did wrong installing my own apache. The default installation directory for pcre is supposed to be /usr/local/bin, but I couldn't find it in there. So I went back and looked at my Terminal output while installing Apache, and I discovered that when I was installing pcre, I did ./configure, but I forgot to do make, then make install.

To correct that, I cd'ed into ~/Downloads/pcre-8.32, and then did:

./configure

make

sudo make install (I got a permission denied error without sudo)

Then I cd'ed into ~/Downloads/httpd-2.4.3 and did:

./configure --with-included-apr

...and that seemed to go well (without having to point to pcre-config). So I did:

make

...and this time there was no pcre error. I followed that up with:

sudo make install

and everything seemed to install fine. So I started up apache with:

sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k start

...and that good ole ever present apache error message greeted me:

AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 7studs-computer.local. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

No worries. I opened a browser and entered http://localhost/ in the address bar, and I was greeted by:

It works!

For people that aren't error prone, it is pretty easy to install apache.

Then why isn't Web Sharing checked in my System Preferences?

Now I can't get a cgi script to execute. Apache is returning the text of the script. I've tried to follow exactly what the Apache CGI tutorial says here:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/cgi.html#configuring

I also followed the directions in the perl cgi script, printenv, that was included with Apache, and Apache returns the text, rather than executing the script. Here is what the cgi-bin directory looks like:

/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin$ ls -al

total 24

drwxrwxrwx 5 root admin 170 Feb 19 19:34 .

drwxr-xr-x 15 root admin 510 Feb 19 12:36 ..

-rwxr-xr-x 1 7stud admin 138 Feb 19 19:32 my.pl

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 7stud staff 687 Feb 19 19:03 printenv

-rw-r--r--@ 1 7stud staff 1127 Sep 6 2008 test-cgi

Here's what the printenv script looks like:

/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin$ cat printenv

#!/usr/bin/env perl

#

# To permit this cgi, replace # on the first line above with the

# appropriate #!/path/to/perl shebang, and set this script executable

# with chmod 755.

#

# Note that it is subject to cross site scripting attacks on MS IE

# and any other browser which fails to honor RFC2616, so never use

# it in a live server environment, it is provided only for testing.

##

## printenv -- demo CGI program which just prints its environment

##

#

use strict;

use warnings;

print "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n\n";

foreach my $var (sort(keys(%ENV))) {

my $val = $ENV{$var};

$val =~ s|\n|\\n|g;

$val =~ s|"|\\"|g;

print "${var}=\"${val}\"\n";

}

Here's the url I used in my browser:

http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/printenv

Here is my httpd.conf:

#

# This is the main Apache HTTP server configuration file. It contains the

# configuration directives that give the server its instructions.

# See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/> for detailed information.

# In particular, see

# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/directives.html>

# for a discussion of each configuration directive.

#

# Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding

# what they do. They're here only as hints or reminders. If you are unsure

# consult the online docs. You have been warned.

#

# Configuration and logfile names: If the filenames you specify for many

# of the server's control files begin with "/" (or "drive:/" for Win32), the

# server will use that explicit path. If the filenames do *not* begin

# with "/", the value of ServerRoot is prepended -- so "logs/access_log"

# with ServerRoot set to "/usr/local/apache2" will be interpreted by the

# server as "/usr/local/apache2/logs/access_log", whereas "/logs/access_log"

# will be interpreted as '/logs/access_log'.

#

# ServerRoot: The top of the directory tree under which the server's

# configuration, error, and log files are kept.

#

# Do not add a slash at the end of the directory path. If you point

# ServerRoot at a non-local disk, be sure to specify a local disk on the

# Mutex directive, if file-based mutexes are used. If you wish to share the

# same ServerRoot for multiple httpd daemons, you will need to change at

# least PidFile.

#

ServerRoot "/usr/local/apache2"

#

# Mutex: Allows you to set the mutex mechanism and mutex file directory

# for individual mutexes, or change the global defaults

#

# Uncomment and change the directory if mutexes are file-based and the default

# mutex file directory is not on a local disk or is not appropriate for some

# other reason.

#

# Mutex default:logs

#

# Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or

# ports, instead of the default. See also the <VirtualHost>

# directive.

#

# Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to

# prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses.

#

#Listen 12.34.56.78:80

Listen 8080

#

# Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support

#

# To be able to use the functionality of a module which was built as a DSO you

# have to place corresponding `LoadModule' lines at this location so the

# directives contained in it are actually available _before_ they are used.

# Statically compiled modules (those listed by `httpd -l') do not need

# to be loaded here.

#

# Example:

# LoadModule foo_module modules/mod_foo.so

#

LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so

#LoadModule authn_dbm_module modules/mod_authn_dbm.so

#LoadModule authn_anon_module modules/mod_authn_anon.so

#LoadModule authn_dbd_module modules/mod_authn_dbd.so

#LoadModule authn_socache_module modules/mod_authn_socache.so

LoadModule authn_core_module modules/mod_authn_core.so

LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so

LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so

LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so

#LoadModule authz_dbm_module modules/mod_authz_dbm.so

#LoadModule authz_owner_module modules/mod_authz_owner.so

#LoadModule authz_dbd_module modules/mod_authz_dbd.so

LoadModule authz_core_module modules/mod_authz_core.so

LoadModule access_compat_module modules/mod_access_compat.so

LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so

#LoadModule auth_form_module modules/mod_auth_form.so

#LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so

#LoadModule allowmethods_module modules/mod_allowmethods.so

#LoadModule file_cache_module modules/mod_file_cache.so

#LoadModule cache_module modules/mod_cache.so

#LoadModule cache_disk_module modules/mod_cache_disk.so

#LoadModule socache_shmcb_module modules/mod_socache_shmcb.so

#LoadModule socache_dbm_module modules/mod_socache_dbm.so

#LoadModule socache_memcache_module modules/mod_socache_memcache.so

#LoadModule dbd_module modules/mod_dbd.so

#LoadModule dumpio_module modules/mod_dumpio.so

#LoadModule buffer_module modules/mod_buffer.so

#LoadModule ratelimit_module modules/mod_ratelimit.so

LoadModule reqtimeout_module modules/mod_reqtimeout.so

#LoadModule ext_filter_module modules/mod_ext_filter.so

#LoadModule request_module modules/mod_request.so

#LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so

LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so

#LoadModule substitute_module modules/mod_substitute.so

#LoadModule sed_module modules/mod_sed.so

#LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so

LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so

#LoadModule log_debug_module modules/mod_log_debug.so

#LoadModule logio_module modules/mod_logio.so

LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so

#LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so

LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so

#LoadModule unique_id_module modules/mod_unique_id.so

LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so

LoadModule version_module modules/mod_version.so

#LoadModule remoteip_module modules/mod_remoteip.so

#LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so

#LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so

#LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so

#LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so

#LoadModule proxy_fcgi_module modules/mod_proxy_fcgi.so

#LoadModule proxy_scgi_module modules/mod_proxy_scgi.so

#LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so

#LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so

#LoadModule proxy_express_module modules/mod_proxy_express.so

#LoadModule session_module modules/mod_session.so

#LoadModule session_cookie_module modules/mod_session_cookie.so

#LoadModule session_dbd_module modules/mod_session_dbd.so

#LoadModule slotmem_shm_module modules/mod_slotmem_shm.so

#LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

#LoadModule lbmethod_byrequests_module modules/mod_lbmethod_byrequests.so

#LoadModule lbmethod_bytraffic_module modules/mod_lbmethod_bytraffic.so

#LoadModule lbmethod_bybusyness_module modules/mod_lbmethod_bybusyness.so

#LoadModule lbmethod_heartbeat_module modules/mod_lbmethod_heartbeat.so

LoadModule unixd_module modules/mod_unixd.so

#LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so

LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so

LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so

#LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so

#LoadModule cgid_module modules/mod_cgid.so

#LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so

#LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so

#LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so

LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so

#LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so

#LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so

#LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so

LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

<IfModule unixd_module>

#

# If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run

# httpd as root initially and it will switch.

#

# User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.

# It is usually good practice to create a dedicated user and group for

# running httpd, as with most system services.

#

User daemon

Group daemon

</IfModule>

# 'Main' server configuration

#

# The directives in this section set up the values used by the 'main'

# server, which responds to any requests that aren't handled by a

# <VirtualHost> definition. These values also provide defaults for

# any <VirtualHost> containers you may define later in the file.

#

# All of these directives may appear inside <VirtualHost> containers,

# in which case these default settings will be overridden for the

# virtual host being defined.

#

#

# ServerAdmin: Your address, where problems with the server should be

# e-mailed. This address appears on some server-generated pages, such

# as error documents. e.g. admin@your-domain.com

#

ServerAdmin you@example.com

#

# ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.

# This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify

# it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.

#

# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.

#

ServerName 7stud.com

#

# Deny access to the entirety of your server's filesystem. You must

# explicitly permit access to web content directories in other

# <Directory> blocks below.

#

<Directory />

AllowOverride none

Require all denied

</Directory>

#

# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow

# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as

# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it

# below.

#

#

# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your

# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but

# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.

#

DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"

<Directory "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs">

#

# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",

# or any combination of:

# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews

#

# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"

# doesn't give it to you.

#

# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see

# http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#options

# for more information.

#

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

#

# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.

# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:

# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit

#

AllowOverride None

#

# Controls who can get stuff from this server.

#

Require all granted

</Directory>

#

# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory

# is requested.

#

<IfModule dir_module>

DirectoryIndex index.html

</IfModule>

#

# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being

# viewed by Web clients.

#

<Files ".ht*">

Require all denied

</Files>

#

# ErrorLog: The location of the error log file.

# If you do not specify an ErrorLog directive within a <VirtualHost>

# container, error messages relating to that virtual host will be

# logged here. If you *do* define an error logfile for a <VirtualHost>

# container, that host's errors will be logged there and not here.

#

ErrorLog "logs/error_log"

#

# LogLevel: Control the number of messages logged to the error_log.

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,

# alert, emerg.

#

LogLevel warn

<IfModule log_config_module>

#

# The following directives define some format nicknames for use with

# a CustomLog directive (see below).

#

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common

<IfModule logio_module>

# You need to enable mod_logio.c to use %I and %O

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio

</IfModule>

#

# The location and format of the access logfile (Common Logfile Format).

# If you do not define any access logfiles within a <VirtualHost>

# container, they will be logged here. Contrariwise, if you *do*

# define per-<VirtualHost> access logfiles, transactions will be

# logged therein and *not* in this file.

#

CustomLog "logs/access_log" common

#

# If you prefer a logfile with access, agent, and referer information

# (Combined Logfile Format) you can use the following directive.

#

#CustomLog "logs/access_log" combined

</IfModule>

<IfModule alias_module>

#

# Redirect: Allows you to tell clients about documents that used to

# exist in your server's namespace, but do not anymore. The client

# will make a new request for the document at its new location.

# Example:

# Redirect permanent /foo http://www.example.com/bar

#

# Alias: Maps web paths into filesystem paths and is used to

# access content that does not live under the DocumentRoot.

# Example:

# Alias /webpath /full/filesystem/path

#

# If you include a trailing / on /webpath then the server will

# require it to be present in the URL. You will also likely

# need to provide a <Directory> section to allow access to

# the filesystem path.

#

# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.

# ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that

# documents in the target directory are treated as applications and

# run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the

# client. The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias

# directives as to Alias.

#

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/

</IfModule>

<IfModule cgid_module>

#

# ScriptSock: On threaded servers, designate the path to the UNIX

# socket used to communicate with the CGI daemon of mod_cgid.

#

#Scriptsock cgisock

</IfModule>

#

# "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased

# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.

#

<Directory "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin">

AllowOverride None

Options None

Require all granted

</Directory>

<IfModule mime_module>

#

# TypesConfig points to the file containing the list of mappings from

# filename extension to MIME-type.

#

TypesConfig conf/mime.types

#

# AddType allows you to add to or override the MIME configuration

# file specified in TypesConfig for specific file types.

#

#AddType application/x-gzip .tgz

#

# AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers uncompress

# information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this.

#

#AddEncoding x-compress .Z

#AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .tgz

#

# If the AddEncoding directives above are commented-out, then you

# probably should define those extensions to indicate media types:

#

AddType application/x-compress .Z

AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz

#

# AddHandler allows you to map certain file extensions to "handlers":

# actions unrelated to filetype. These can be either built into the server

# or added with the Action directive (see below)

#

# To use CGI scripts outside of ScriptAliased directories:

# (You will also need to add "ExecCGI" to the "Options" directive.)

#

#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

# For type maps (negotiated resources):

#AddHandler type-map var

#

# Filters allow you to process content before it is sent to the client.

#

# To parse .shtml files for server-side includes (SSI):

# (You will also need to add "Includes" to the "Options" directive.)

#

#AddType text/html .shtml

#AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

</IfModule>

#

# The mod_mime_magic module allows the server to use various hints from the

# contents of the file itself to determine its type. The MIMEMagicFile

# directive tells the module where the hint definitions are located.

#

#MIMEMagicFile conf/magic

#

# Customizable error responses come in three flavors:

# 1) plain text 2) local redirects 3) external redirects

#

# Some examples:

#ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo."

#ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html

#ErrorDocument 404 "/cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl"

#ErrorDocument 402 http://www.example.com/subscription_info.html

#

#

# MaxRanges: Maximum number of Ranges in a request before

# returning the entire resource, or one of the special

# values 'default', 'none' or 'unlimited'.

# Default setting is to accept 200 Ranges.

#MaxRanges unlimited

#

# EnableMMAP and EnableSendfile: On systems that support it,

# memory-mapping or the sendfile syscall may be used to deliver

# files. This usually improves server performance, but must

# be turned off when serving from networked-mounted

# filesystems or if support for these functions is otherwise

# broken on your system.

# Defaults: EnableMMAP On, EnableSendfile Off

#

#EnableMMAP off

#EnableSendfile on

# Supplemental configuration

#

# The configuration files in the conf/extra/ directory can be

# included to add extra features or to modify the default configuration of

# the server, or you may simply copy their contents here and change as

# necessary.

# Server-pool management (MPM specific)

#Include conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf

# Multi-language error messages

#Include conf/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf

# Fancy directory listings

#Include conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf

# Language settings

#Include conf/extra/httpd-languages.conf

# User home directories

#Include conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

# Real-time info on requests and configuration

#Include conf/extra/httpd-info.conf

# Virtual hosts

#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

# Local access to the Apache HTTP Server Manual

#Include conf/extra/httpd-manual.conf

# Distributed authoring and versioning (WebDAV)

#Include conf/extra/httpd-dav.conf

# Various default settings

#Include conf/extra/httpd-default.conf

# Configure mod_proxy_html to understand HTML4/XHTML1

<IfModule proxy_html_module>

Include conf/extra/proxy-html.conf

</IfModule>

# Secure (SSL/TLS) connections

#Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

#

# Note: The following must must be present to support

# starting without SSL on platforms with no /dev/random equivalent

# but a statically compiled-in mod_ssl.

#

<IfModule ssl_module>

SSLRandomSeed startup builtin

SSLRandomSeed connect builtin

</IfModule>

# Deal with user agents that deliberately violate open standards

#

<IfModule setenvif_module>

BrowserMatch "MSIE 10.0;" bad_DNT

</IfModule>

<IfModule headers_module>

RequestHeader unset DNT env=bad_DNT

</IfModule>

I have a small portion on how to run Perl CGI scripts from a non-standard directory. However, you seem pretty far away from accomplishing that.

Why do you say that /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin is non-standard? It's the default.

If I don't solve things with my Apache install, then I will resort to the built in Apache. At this point though, I'm determined to get my Apache install working. The Apache install instructions for Mac OSX are quite good--even though I botched one of the steps.

In addition, the directions for getting CGI working are simplistic. Have you looked at the Apache instructions for getting CGI working? You say I am not even close to getting CGI working, but the apache CGI instructions say the only thing you need is a ScriptAlias in your httpd.conf that specifies the path to the cgi-bin directory, AND by default that is already setup for you in httpd.conf. So the only thing you need to do is make your cgi script executable and add a shebang line to the top. Simple. But it doesn't work!