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    perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/stas     INSTALLPRIVLIB=/home/stas/lib/perl5     INSTALLSCRIPT=/home/stas/bin     INSTALLSITELIB=/home/stas/lib/perl5/site_perl     INSTALLBIN=/home/stas/bin     INSTALLMAN1DIR=/home/stas/lib/perl5/man      INSTALLMAN3DIR=/home/stas/lib/perl5/man3


 then replace PREFIX=/home/stas in the line: 
  'makepl_arg' => q[PREFIX=/home/stas],


 with all the variables from above, so that the line becomes: 
  'makepl_arg' => q[PREFIX=/home/stas     INSTALLPRIVLIB=/home/stas/lib/perl5     INSTALLSCRIPT=/home/stas/bin     INSTALLSITELIB=/home/stas/lib/perl5/site_perl     INSTALLBIN=/home/stas/bin     INSTALLMAN1DIR=/home/stas/lib/perl5/man      INSTALLMAN3DIR=/home/stas/lib/perl5/man3],


 If you arrange all the above parameters in one line, you can remove the

backslashes (). 
Making a Local Apache

Installation

 Just like with Perl modules, if you don't have permissions to install files

into the system area you have to install them locally under your home

directory. It's almost the same as a plain installation, but you have to run

the server listening to a port number greater than 1024 since only root

processes can listen to lower numbered ports. 

 Another important issue you have to resolve is how to add startup and

shutdown scripts to the directories used by the rest of the system services.

You will have to ask your system administrator to assist you with this issue.


 To install Apache locally, all you have to do is to tell

.configure in the Apache source directory what target directories

to use. If you are following the convention that I use, which makes your home

directory look like the / (base) directory, the invocation

parameters would be: 
  ./configure --prefix=/home/stas


 Apache will use the prefix for the rest of its target directories instead

of the default /usr/local/apache. If you want to see what they

are, before you proceed add the --show-layout option: 

  ./configure --prefix=/home/stas --show-layout


 You might want to put all the Apache files under

/home/stas/apache following Apache's convention: 
  ./configure --prefix=/home/stas/apache


 If you want to modify some or all of the names of the automatically created

directories: 
  ./configure --prefix=/home/stas/apache     --sbindir=/home/stas/apache/sbin
    --sysconfdir=/home/stas/apache/etc
    --localstatedir=/home/stas/apache/var     --runtimedir=/home/stas/apache/var/run     --logfiledir=/home/stas/apache/var/logs     --proxycachedir=/home/stas/apache/var/proxy


 That's all! 

 Also remember that you can start the script only under a user and group you

belong to. You must set the User and Group directives

in httpd.conf to appropriate values. 
Manual Local mod_perl Enabled

Apache Installation

 Now when we have learned how to install local Apache and Perl modules

separately, let's see how to install mod_perl enabled Apache in our home

directory. It's almost as simple as doing each one separately, but there is one

wrinkle you need to know about which I'll mention at the end of this section.


 Let's say you have unpacked the Apache and mod_perl sources under

/home/stas/src and they look like this: 
  % ls /home/stas/src
  /home/stas/src/apache_x.x.x
  /home/stas/src/mod_perl-x.xx