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Why from source? If you installed from RPM (you're using Mandrake, right?), you wouldn't have to write a script... To find RPMs, go here.
In your current situation, you can try (as root) the command "apachectl start". If you want this to happen at boottime, add the command to /etc/rc.local, somewhere at the bottom of that file.
you need a symlink in /etc/rc?.d
? - is for runlevel you are booting into
the symlink is
ln -s /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl /etc/rc?.d/S15httpd
and another similar link in /etc/rc6.d to shutdown apache properly on system reboot
ln -s /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl /etc/rc6.d/K15httpd
here 15 is a sequence number, see in /etc/rc?.d/ directory if it is not taken by anything else if it is taken pick the one which is not yet taken. The same in rcd.0 on system shutdown
neo7777 has the CORRECT way to do it, but if you really want to do it your way, i.e. the WRONG way, you'd just put a line in /etc/rc.local, which is run with root permissions on boot.
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