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aqua

01-01-2005, 11:22 PM

I am in the process of installing Apache 2 from source and I used the curl process to grab the source. I was wondering where does the sources get downloaded to?

Thanks

retsaw

01-02-2005, 04:30 AM

Which options did you use with curl? By default it writes to stdout, but check the directory you ran it from.

bwkaz

01-02-2005, 02:00 PM

You could also just use wget. Or lynx, or one of the other text mode browsers. ;)

serz

01-02-2005, 03:03 PM

It's downloaded where you run curl.

aqua

01-02-2005, 07:33 PM

What happens if the download process did not get completed? I want to find where the partial file is and delete the incomplete file.

bwkaz

01-02-2005, 09:01 PM

curl.haxx.se (the cURL homepage) says that it supports resuming downloads, so the file should exist. It really should be in whatever directory you were in when you ran curl the first time. Go back there and look for it, or go back there and re-do the curl to resume the download.

aqua

01-02-2005, 10:17 PM

Bet u can guess what my next question is gonna be :)

Let's hypothetically say I err I mean my friend does not know what directory they were in when they did the Curl option.

Basically I am doing a PHP and Apache 2 install for my Mac and I am following some instructions to build and install, however, they did not tell me what directory to curl from. They suggested I create an Apache 2 directory and put my apache 2 files as well as PHP 5 files in this Apache 2 dirrectory. So my next question is where do I create this apache 2 directory then? etc? bin/local? i thought that downloaded source files were put somewhere to be used again or deleted? something like /var or /tmp...i am a newbie at this stuff...

retsaw

01-03-2005, 06:23 PM

Try doing a search for the file. This will work assuming the filename has apache in it.find / -iname \*apache\*If you don't run this as root you will get various "permission denied" errors as it searches, but it will likely find the file anyway, assuming it does exist.

If you are asking where you should build apache, it really does not matter, you could do this either in your home directory or /usr/src, it's up to you.