You should also read the instructions in the Configuration file to see if you need to set any of the Rule lines. Configure Apache for your operating system. Normally you can just run the Configure script as given below. This generates a Makefile for use in stage 3. It also creates a Makefile in the support directory, for compilation of the optional support programs.
Type make .
The modules we place in the Apache distribution are the ones we have tested and are used regularly by various members of the Apache development group. There are instructions on that page for linking these modules into the core Apache code. You will have a binary file called httpd in the src directory. A binary distribution of Apache will supply this file. The next step is to install the program and configure it.