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I'm trying to install the newest version of apache on my centos server. I did the following: 

Download $ wget http://httpd.apache.org/path/to/latest/version/ Extract $ gzip -d httpd-2_0_NN.tar.gz $ tar xvf httpd-2_0_NN.tar Configure $ ./configure Compile $ make Install $ make install Test $ PREFIX/bin/apachectl start

And that all worked except the last step, when i type apachectl start it says 'command not found'. I ran this command from /usr/local/apache2/bin/ where it is installed but no cigar. Any idea what i am doing wrong? Thanks.

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    The current version in the official repositories is 2.2.3. Any reason you can't use it? Commented Jan 11, 2011 at 18:18
  • i'm confused why every1 thinks it is bad to install new versions of software? I just completed installing 2.2.17 and got the 'it works!' page. So why not have a cigar? Their official site says 'This release represents fifteen years of innovation by the project, and is recommended over all previous releases!' See that, its recommended. Commented Jan 11, 2011 at 19:16
  • People think it is bad because, from the FAQ: "Server Fault is for system administrators and desktop support professionals, people who manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity." Commented Jan 11, 2011 at 19:25

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It's not working because you're literally giving it the string PREFIX/bin/apachectl start instead of replacing PREFIX with the location into which you installed Apache, as the instructions you are following intend.

In your case, that's apparently /usr/local/apache2, so run 

/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

But, that still leaves us with the larger issue of Why Are You Doing This? The vendor packages provided by CentOS include bug fixes and security patches, and in fact are regularly updated to ensure that newly-discovered issues are fixed.

Meanwhile, Apache development within the 2.2.x branch is rather conservative, and there aren't major new features (if any!) you'll gain by going with 2.2.17 (the current latest). And, that's not even going into the fact that you seem to have gotten the rather old 2.0 version. Did you maybe want the incompatible, unstable 2.3 development version?

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  • i'm trying to install 2.2.17. The above quote was from their documentation on how to install it but its the procedure i followed. Centos offers really stable but really old software from the base repo. Php for example is 5.1.6 which is useless for me. I just thought i might as well have a newer apache too, how could it hurt me? Commented Jan 11, 2011 at 18:51
  • It can hurt you by increasing your maintenance load — you've now got a new thing you've got to watch individually for security vulnerabilities and update independently of your distribution as a whole. Commented Jan 11, 2011 at 19:24
  • ok point taken. However you have to agree that upgrading php from 5.1.6 is a necessity. Commented Jan 11, 2011 at 19:27
  • Depending on your application, it may be. But don't make more work for yourself than necessary. Commented Jan 11, 2011 at 19:30
  • It sounds like you are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS 5.5. See: Actually, as of today, see: serverfault.com/questions/221251/… Commented Jan 13, 2011 at 14:47
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Is /usr/local/apache2/bin/ in your $PATH? Run echo $PATH on the command line to see.

If not, when in /usr/local/apache2/bin/ did you type in apachectl start or ./apachectl start?

If you left out the ./ then the shell is going to search in the various directories mentioned your PATH, and not find apachectl. If you have the ./ before the executable, it will run it from the directory you're in.

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