From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 16:56:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BC316A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:56:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3208043D5F for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:56:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.lokken@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 37so522089wra for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:56:49 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=RPMdvuKtC0qZWLImP9EvB7+ze5zgo6kalfP7jI+o+lh6YuckQnJgouZM0CM1/8vMSfGICWjH8V3KSSXk4pji1ZWCVN41+YJ9SlH+H+dtWhZWWxy/iX0cnpJ562eAfL/zkUz5wAqeh74+RRej226RXyH6QpOK64ttWDJczoaGhfI= Received: by 10.54.28.39 with SMTP id b39mr15378wrb; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:56:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.11.33 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:56:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:56:49 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken To: "Andrew L. Gould" In-Reply-To: <200412291023.15588.algould@datawok.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041229155543.15692.qmail@web50008.mail.yahoo.com> <200412291023.15588.algould@datawok.com> cc: Fernando Matzdorf cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Apache 2.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joshua Lokken List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:56:50 -0000 On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:23:15 -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 09:55 am, Fernando Matzdorf wrote: > > Help!! > > I recently downloaded version 2.0 of the Apache server from their > > website, and I tried to install it to my system using pkg_add but was > > unsuccessful (maybe it's not a package but I can't tell). I > > downloaded it on a Windows XP computer, burned it to a cd, then tried > > to install it on my FreeBSD computer, because configuring my WinModem > > on FreeBSD is practically impossible. > > You should become familiar with the online handbood and with FreeBSD's > ports system, which makes the installation of thousands of applications > quite easy. You will find that Apache2 is included in the ports. The > section of the handbook regarding the installation of applications can > be found here: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html You may also want to spend the time and money to pick up a modem that will work with FreeBSD, as you will need an internet connection to effectively use the ports collection. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate