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I just manually installed the Apache HTTPD 2.2.14 server in Ubuntu following these instructions (and using all default options). Since I did the manual installation, once I tried installing passenger module for Apache (through passenger-install-apache2-module), it found everything it needed, except for Apache. The error message is as follows (I installed everything else through synaptic, so those have no problems):

  • GNU C++ compiler... found at /usr/bin/g++
  • Ruby development headers... found
  • OpenSSL support for Ruby... found
  • RubyGems... found
  • Rake... found at /usr/bin/rake
  • rack... found
  • Apache 2... not found
  • Apache 2 development headers... found at /usr/bin/apxs2
  • Apache Portable Runtime (APR) development headers... found at /usr/bin/apr-1-config
  • Apache Portable Runtime Utility (APU) development headers... found at /usr/bin/apu-1-config

How can I make the passenger module installer (or anything for that matter) detect the Apache server installation?

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It mostly depends on the packages involved, and where they are installed. If you installed one package outside of the package manager, you might need to install other packages outside the package manager. Some packages allow you to specify the locations of their dependencies at compile time (via flags to their configure scripts).

If you installed Apache to the default location, it's probably in /usr/local. Is /usr/local/bin in your PATH? Try adding it before you run the passenger install script.

If you really need Apache2 2.2.14 instead of 2.2.12 (as is available in the Karmic repositories), consider downloading the newer version's source package from the Lucid repository and building your own packages for Karmic (or whichever Ubuntu version you're using). That gives you the advantage of using the system package manager, and the passenger installer shouldn't have any more difficulty.

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Often, a configure script will have options like --with-apache2=/usr/local/apache2 or something. --prefix=/usr/local is also a possibility. Try running ./configure --help from the source directory of passenger to see if these options are available.

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I had the same sort of problem, check out that there's an option telling you wether you want to cancel or continue (pressing Enter)

Press Enter and the installer will tell give you the installation commands (apt-get install...) for the missing packages, that worked for me and so far I haven't got any problem.

greetings!!!

check out the link http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html#_configuring_phusion_passenger for further information

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