HOWTO: Download Apache Package to Intall in a Linux Distro!

A web server is software to make accessible to many computers (clients) of web pages stored on disk. This fact sheet explains how to install the Apache web server on a UNIX system (typically a Linux distribution such as Red Hat, Mandrake or any other).

This is why some knowledge about Linux or UNIX is necessary. The purpose of this record is going to be being able to recover the sources of different necessary elements and to compile them (a C compiler is necessary, it is usually installed by default on most Linux distributions) in order to have a system operational. 

Let’s download The Apache Package; we need to go to the following link:

http://www.apache.org/download.cgi 

We got the following Interface:

 

 

Now we just choose which version we want to download and we download it by clicking on the format that we want to download as. Or just type on your terminal the following command to get the latest version:

 wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist//httpd/httpd-2.4.20.tar.gz

After Download had finished we can found the Apache package on our Downloads Directory.

After downloading it, we got a file named httpd-2.4.x.tar.gz

We need to decompress the archive by the Command:

tar zxvf httpd-2.4.x.tar.gz

The x is the third part of the version ( Latest Stable version is 2.4.20, released 11/04/2016 ).

After this, we can progress to the installation,