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Apache HTTP Server is an open-source web server platform.  This article will outline the steps to install, configure, harden a zero-footprint instance of Apache 2.2 & 2.4, with particular focus on the nuances between each.

Prerequisites

If you are building you zero-footprint for the first time you will need a C/C++ compiler avaiable on the initial system.  For the most part, most Unix/Linux distributions will come packaged with the gcc compiler.  

# which gcc

Initial Installation