1 buildconf (configure the config...)

why buildconfig?
As you saw if you read the EZ Install, Apache2 has a nifty little build-configuration script. It's main purpose is to simplify the Apache build process from platform to platform. This lets the ./configure part deal with Apache-only parts. In theory, your ./configure should be very similar on very different platforms, and takes a lot of confusion out of configuring Apache 's build-time directives. Happy the Apache folks did things this way? You will be when you see how it can be configured...<g>

OK- % cd back into your unpacked httpd directory.

% ./buildconf

And watch it go- start reading the next section while the shell cranks out the config files,