Building httpd 2.4.6

When trying to build an RPM from the Apache source tarball, rpmbuild bails with:

RPM build errors:
Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
/usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_wstunnel.so

The problem is that the mod_proxy_wstunnel.so file has been omitted from the httpd.spec file used to build the RPM.

Extract the tarball, open up httpd.spec in your favourite text editor and scroll down until you find a section that looks like:

%dir %{_libdir}/httpd
%dir %{_libdir}/httpd/modules
%{_libdir}/httpd/modules/mod_access_compat.so
%{_libdir}/httpd/modules/mod_actions.so
…
%{_libdir}/httpd/modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
%{_libdir}/httpd/modules/mod_watchdog.so

%dir %{contentdir}

This should start at line 308. Add in the following line:

%{_libdir}/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_wstunnel.so

You can now run rpmbuild again. You will either need to rebuild the tarball or change to using “rpmbuild -bb httpd.spec” instead of “rpmbuild -tb httpd-2.4.6.tar.bz2”.