For security reasons, running the server as an unpriviledged user and group is strongly encouraged. groupadd apache && useradd -c apache -d /dev/null -g apache -s /bin/false apache Build and install Apache by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sbindir=/usr/sbin \ --libexecdir=/usr/lib/apache \ --sysconfdir=/etc/apache \ --includedir=/usr/include/apache \ --datadir=/var/www \ --localstatedir=/var/www \ --logfiledir=/var/log/apache \ --runtimedir=/var/run \ --enable-module=all \ --enable-shared=max \ --disable-module=auth_db \ --disable-module=auth_dbm \ --server-uid=apache \ --server-gid=apache && make && make install