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2. Prerequisites
2.1. General
flex
bison
autoconf
libtool
freetype2-devel
To be continiued
All major distributions will include this general prerequisites
2.2. Distribution specific
2.2.1. SuSE Linux
2.2.1.1. SuSE Linux 7.1 (maybe applicable to other distributions)
SuSE 7.1 and maybe other distributions have problems to build apache 1.3.19 (1.3.20 and later are okay) with mod_rewrite
To correct this misbehaviour create a symlink:
cd /usr/include/db1 ln -s ../ndbm.h ndbm.h |
In SuSE 7.2 and later this issue is fixed
2.3. OpenSSL
2.3.1. What is OpenSSL
Quoting www.openssl.org
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related documentation.
OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under an Apache-style licence, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license conditions.
From authors poinns of view, its the basic to build a secure Unix-Server with Opensource Software, its needed for all major products like mod_ssl, OpenSSH and lot of other stuff that provides encrypted Data-processing
OpenSSL provides the libraries and include-files needed be the products mentioned above and also provides a Application to build Server and client-Certificates.
2.3.2. Download the source
Origin-Site http://www.openssl.org
2.3.3. Building and installing
cd /usr/local tar -xvzf openssl-0.9.6c.tar.gz cd openssl-0.9.6c ./config shared make make test make install echo "/usr/local/ssl/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf ldconfig |
2.4. MySQL
2.4.1. What is MySQL
Mysql is a very fast, powerful and very nice to handle Database.
Especially for Webapplication where most access is read and few write, MySQL is the first choice. The newest Version is also transaction-capable. If you plan a Webapplication, that writes a lot of Data into the DB, maybe Postgres is better suited for your project
You need the C-API from Mysql for compiling php if you wish MySQL-Support in php. It is also needed if you want to use mod_authmysql, See Section 3.7 for more information
2.4.2. Download
Origin-Site: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/
2.4.3. Building and installing
cd /usr/local tar -xvzf mysql-3.23.49a.tar.gz cd mysql-3.23.49a ./configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/mysql \ --enable-assembler \ --with-innodb make make install /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_install_db echo /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql >> /etc/ld.so.conf ldconfig |
For security-improvement add a mysql-user on your system i.e. "mysql", then
chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/var |
and change the line user=root to user=mysql in the file /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld
you may wish to start mysql automatically at boottime, copy /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/mysql.server to /etc/init.d/ (or wherever your rc-script are located) and create the corresponding symbolic link in the runlevel directories.
cp /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/mysql.server /etc/init.d/ ln -s /etc/init.d/mysql.server /etc/init.d/rc3.d/S20mysql ln -s /etc/init.d/mysql.server /etc/init.d/rc3.d/K20mysql |
2.5. Building mm
2.5.1. What is mm
Quoting www.engelschall.com
The MM library is a 2-layer abstraction library which simplifies the usage of shared memory between forked (and this way strongly related) processes under Unix platforms. On the first layer it hides all platform dependent implementation details (allocation and locking) when dealing with shared memory segments and on the second layer it provides a high-level malloc(3)-style API for a convenient and well known way to work with data-structures inside those shared memory segments.
From the authors point of view:
It is a common lib that enables Unix-Programers to simplify shm accesses. It is used by many products, i.e. PHP and mod_ssl
Since the author is not a programmer, he is unable to explain the exact usage of that lib
2.5.3. Building and installing
cd /usr/local tar -xvzf mm-1.1.3.tar.gz cd mm-1.1.3 ./configure make make test make install ldconfig |