Hi

I have an installed apache2 on the system but its missing mod_rewrite module. Does anyone know how to install it into an already running apache server? I know you can dynamically link it into apache using apxs but I dont have mod_rewrite.c file to compile it from. So I'm stuck.

bash-3.00# ./apachectl -V
Server version: Apache/2.0.59
Server built: Apr 17 2007 11:02:44
Server's Module Magic Number: 20020903:12
Server loaded: APR 0.9.12, APR-UTIL 0.9.12
Compiled using: APR 0.9.12, APR-UTIL 0.9.12
Architecture: 32-bit
Server compiled with....
-D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork"
-D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
-D APR_HAS_MMAP
-D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled)
-D APR_USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZE
-D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE
-D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD
-D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS
-D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr/local/apache2"
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/local/apache2/bin/suexec"
-D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="logs/httpd.pid"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
-D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/accept.lock"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"


bash-3.00# ./httpd -l
Compiled in modules:
core.c
mod_access.c
mod_auth.c
mod_include.c
mod_log_config.c
mod_env.c
mod_setenvif.c
mod_ssl.c
prefork.c
http_core.c
mod_mime.c
mod_status.c
mod_autoindex.c
mod_asis.c
mod_cgi.c
mod_negotiation.c
mod_dir.c
mod_imap.c
mod_actions.c
mod_userdir.c
mod_alias.c
mod_so.c

Hi,

From:
apache was compiled from source using the default directory /usr/local/apache2.
If you can't find the sources used to compile the running apache, you can download again the source tarball for the same version of apache (2.0.59), extract it in some place, go into httpd-2.0.59/modules/mappers directory and run
This will compile, install and activate the mod_rewrite module, so you have to restart apache to start using it

Regards

Thanks for the tip Bathory I did what you suggested and looks like apxs did in fact compile the mod_rewrite.c but from the looks of this output and the files it generated I cant see or find where the mod_rewrite.so resides. I did a search on the system and no luck either.


bash-3.00# pwd
/var/tmp/ym/httpd-2.0.59/modules/mappers

bash-3.00# apxs -c mod_rewrite.c
/usr/local/apache2/build/libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -prefer-pic -DAP_HAVE_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER -DSOLARIS2=9 -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTRANT -g -O2 -pthreads -I/usr/local/apache2/include -I/usr/local/apache2/include -I/usr/local/apache2/include -I/usr/local/include -c -o mod_rewrite.lo mod_rewrite.c && touch mod_rewrite.slo
/usr/local/apache2/build/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -o mod_rewrite.la -rpath /usr/local/apache2/modules -module -avoid-version mod_rewrite.lo

It did generate these 4 files but I dont know what they are.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167668 Dec 2 17:00 mod_rewrite.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 324 Dec 2 17:00 mod_rewrite.lo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 2 17:00 mod_rewrite.slo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 822 Dec 2 17:00 mod_rewrite.la

bash-3.00# apxs -i -a mod_rewrite.c
apxs:Error: file mod_rewrite.c is not a shared object.

Why didn't you use -i and -a options to also install and activate the module?
Anyway, you have to run:
to complete installation

Regards

You are correct when I re-ran apxs with addition options it did the trick and created mod_rewrite.so in appropriate directory and it also updated httpd.conf file.

/usr/local/apache2/apxs -i -a -c mod_rewrite.c

Thanks again for the help!

You're welcome.
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Regards