Patching Apache on Debian

Steps for applying a patch to the Apache source tree and building a Debian package of the patched Apache in order to install via apt as normal.

  1. Download the source package and build dependencies:
    2. apt-get source apache2
apt-get build-dep apache2
  2. Apply the patch to the source:
    3. cd apache2-2.2.9/
patch -p1 < patchfile
  3. Build the debian package:
    4. dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b
  4. List the currently installed apache2 packages:
    5. dpkg -l | egrep '^i+ +apache2'
  5. Install the appropriate newly built packages (all the packages listed in the previous step) and restart apache:
    6. cd ..
dpkg -i apache2_2.2.9-10+lenny2_all.deb
dpkg -i apache2-mpm-prefork_2.2.9-10+lenny2_amd64.deb
dpkg -i apache2-prefork-dev_2.2.9-10+lenny2_amd64.deb
dpkg -i apache2-utils_2.2.9-10+lenny2_amd64.deb
dpkg -i apache2.2-common_2.2.9-10+lenny2_amd64.deb

apache2ctl restart

Simples!

This entry was written by James Furness, posted on June 7, 2009 at 11:56 pm, filed under Debian and tagged , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. R S Chakravarti
    Posted June 13, 2009 at 1:13 pm | Permalink

    You didn’t write anything about the patchfile. Where to get it? How do we know we can patch the Debian source with it?

  2. James
    Posted June 13, 2009 at 1:25 pm | Permalink

    The patchfile is whatever patch you want to apply to Apache, I was merely explaining how to apply such a patch in a Debian environment – which patchfile(s) you use depends why you need to patch Apache. If you don’t have a specific patch you need then you should be fine with the standard Debian install.

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