> > if the install-apache script is itself build by autoconf (as I imagine it
> > would be), that's certainly the obvious way to do it...
>
> That's what I'd think. Of course, the really neat way to do it is to make
> a real, live person downloadable with Apache, and they set it up for you.
> Any volunteers?
One way to make this a bit easier would be to create a simple little
shell-script wrapper for the configure command. It might ask a few
simple questions, like: "Where is your document root?", "Where would
you like your server configuration files stored?", and "Which user user/group
id should the server run as?". All with defaults of course. Then simply
call configure from this shell script with the appropriate command line
arguments. I do it this way for the mod_php install, and so far I have had
very few installation oriented support problems.
With something like this we would be able to have a single-command
server installation. It can even check if there is something in
DOCUMENT_ROOT, and if there isn't, install a sample page with some
links to the documentation on apache.org.
-Rasmus
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