Compiling Apache web server with dynamic module support

Question

I have just compiled Apache 2.2.17 on a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04.2. It\'s a learning exercise to discover what actually goes on when you compile something rather than just

Answer 1

Fantastic. Thank you both for your help.

It took a couple of attempts but I finally got it working. I ended up having to download the source for an earlier version of Apache before the modules would compile correctly instead of producing the .a and .la files. Not sure if that was because there is some kind of caching thing going on during the configure/make/install process that I'm not aware of and some part of my previous (incorrect) attempts at compiling were being re-run somehow or maybe it was something to do with the 2.2.17 version of Apache - not sure. Anyway, it worked in the end.