Building a Lightweight Apache

Intro

The original Apache while beeing a robust workhorse has lots of features that most of us will hardly ever need and this rich featureset comes with a bunch of disadvantages:

Thus we need a more lightweight alternative. Fortunately, there are modified versions available from various sources. Here I will show how to build to smallest Apache I am aware of.

Get the source package

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It is hard to get the source directly from the vendor, so use your local mirror instead.

Verify that your package is complete

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Read the build instructions

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Build

Finally you end up with the probably lightest Apache in the world ;-)

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Coming next: Building a lightweight Tomcat...