Compiling Apache From the Source Tar File

Synopsis:

I had to re-compile apache to include a mod for authenticating against a MySQL table.
The base compile put Apache into /usr/local/Apache and I needed the base directory
to match what I already have in Slackware 8.0 (with the config in /etc/httpd and the
base dir in /var/www).

Apache uses a layout file (config.layout) so it can be built on different platforms.
But, the layouts didn't match what I needed. So I created this one below.

#   slackware path layout
<Layout Slackware>
    prefix:        /usr
    exec_prefix:   $prefix
    bindir:        $prefix/bin
    sbindir:       $prefix/sbin
    libexecdir:    $exec_prefix/libexec
    mandir:        $prefix/man
    sysconfdir:    /etc+
    datadir:       /var/www
    iconsdir:      $datadir/icons
    htdocsdir:     $datadir/htdocs
    manualdir:     $htdocsdir/manual
    cgidir:        $datadir/cgi-bin
    includedir:    $prefix/include/apache
    localstatedir: /var
    runtimedir:    $localstatedir/run
    logfiledir:    /var/log/apache
    proxycachedir: $localstatedir/cache/proxy
</Layout>