Hi there,
I’ve recently created a new droplet with Ubuntu 16.04 and was pleased to see that sudo apt-get install apache2 gets me Apache 2.4.18. I was hoping that would allow me to enable HTTP2 support; alas, the respective mod_http2 is not included. Is there any way to manually install the module or to get a version of Apache that has it included?
Many thanks, Florian
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Another option is using Ondrej’s Launchpad PPA. For example: (replacing REPOSITORY with string from that page for your Ubuntu version).
sudo add-apt-repository 'REPOSITORY'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
This will give you the latest Apache rather than the version specifically for Ubuntu. Of course there are reasons Ubuntu ships slightly differently - stability, known degree of security/performance testing etc. but in my mind it is a worthwhile tradeof especially for HTTP/2
a2enmod http2 perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = “UTF-8”, LANG = “en_US.UTF-8” are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale (“en_US.UTF-8”). ERROR: Module http2 does not exist!
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/apache2 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install apache2 -y sudo a2enmod http2 Put somewhere this directive → Protocols h2 http/1.1 sudo service apache2 restart
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