Issues installing mod_wsgi - cannot find Makefile.in

Question

I'm trying to rebuild mod_wsgi and am running into this issue? Does anyone know what's going on here?

/tmp/mod_wsgi-3.4# ls
config.log     LICENCE           posix-ap2X.mk.in   win32-ap22py31.mk
config.status  Makefile.in       README
configure      mod_wsgi.c        win32-ap22py26.mk
configure.ac   posix-ap1X.mk.in  win32-ap22py27.mk
root@vps-547073:/tmp/mod_wsgi-3.4# ./configure
checking for apxs2... no
checking for apxs... no
checking Apache version... ./configure: line 1704: apxs: command not found
./configure: line 1704: apxs: command not found
./configure: line 1705: apxs: command not found
./configure: line 1708: /: Is a directory

checking for python... /usr/bin/python
./configure: line 1877: apxs: command not found
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: error: cannot find input file: Makefile.in

Answer 1

See the mod_wsgi instructions:

• http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/QuickInstallationGuide#Apache_Requirements

It says:

On Linux systems, if Apache has been installed from a package repository, you must have installed the corresponding Apache "dev" package as well.

For most Linux distributions, the "dev" package for Apache 2.X is "apache2-dev" where the corresponding Apache package was "apache2". Some systems however distinguish the "dev" package based on which MPM is used by Apache. As such, it may also be called "apache2-worker-dev" or "apache2-prefork-dev". If using Apache 2.X, do not mix things up and install "apache-dev" by mistake, which is the "dev" package for Apache 1.3 called just "apache".

You are missing that dev package for Apache. This is why 'apxs' cannot be found and subsequent issues occur.

Answer 2

Try to install apache-dev. Use below command in terminal to install.

sudo yum install httpd-devel

OR

Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install apache2-dev