Apache 64-bit on Solaris 10 & Weblogic

Solaris 10 comes with Apache 32- bit by default.  This was a surprise.

My task here is to get Apache 64-bit and then hook it up to Weblogic on the SSL channel.  I will detail the Apache + Weblogic SSL communication.  Setting up Weblogic to listen on SSL is a different post, that I may or may not write up :)

I will be installing apache at /usr/local/apache (Many folks like to install it at /usr/local/apache2 etc, but I'm keeping it simple here)

I have a staging directory to compile / install the required packages.  This is a Whole Root zone, with Solaris 10 fully installed with all the packages on the Global Zone.

I need
0. Apache 2.2.4 -- I tried Apache 2.4 and as of this writing is not supported with the mod_wl.so library.
1.  PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions Library)
2. Apr
3. Apr-utils

A gist of what is required is available on Apache's documentation site ( Apache Documentation for Installation )

For PCRE, I downloaded it from: PCRE
Download APR & APR-UTIL from here.

Initial settings on the terminal

export CFLAGS="-m64"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/sfw/lib/sparcv9"

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/sfw/lib/sparcv9:/usr/local/lib/sparcv9 

the CFLAGS setting is  really important, otherwise, you wont get it compiled in 64 bit.  Make sure your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LDFLAGS point to the accurate directories.

Compiling PCRE

This installs PCRE in /usr/local/pcre

/root/apache-compilation/pcre-8.33
./configure --disable-cpp CFLAGS="-m64 -g"
make
make install

Compiling APR

/root/apache-compilation/apr-1.4.8
./configure
make
make install

APR gets installed in /usr/local/apr.  The CFLAGS setting set in the environment should carry on.

Compiling APR-UTIL

/root/apache-compilation/apr-util-1.5.2
./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr
make
make install

Compiling Apache
I use the prefix /usr/local/apache  - but some people prefer to use "apache2".  Make it your own.  The prefix designates where apache gets installed.

/root/apache-compilation/httpd-2.2.24
./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apr --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-mods-shared=most --enable-ssl --with-ssl=/usr/sfw
make
make install

After the installation, I like to test to make sure its 64 bit (as I've gotten bitten a number of times).

# cd /usr/local/apache/modules
# file mod_vhost_alias.so
mod_vhost_alias.so:     ELF 64-bit MSB dynamic lib SPARCV9 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped, no debugging information available

That tells you its a 64 Bit file.

To get Weblogic working, I copied the wls 1.1 plugins *.so files (which are only 64 bit) to the /usr/local/apache/modules directory.  Then followed the instructions from Oracle here

Good luck.  Comments are welcome.