Compiling Apache Without Default Modules

I have always liked the fact that RedHat and Fedora's Apache httpd RPM is compiled as a fully modular server. Yeah, you loose a couple performance points, but you have a slim footprint which allows more sessions, and there aren't unneeded subroutines waiting to be exploited. Yet, if you download Apache source and try to compile, you get 24 components added to your binary. Bloat!

To compile a slim, modular Apache, use:

./configure --enable-mods-shared=all --with-mpm=prefork \
  --disable-deflate
make; make install
/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -l
Compiled in modules:
  core.c
  prefork.c
  http_core.c
  mod_so.c

But this raises an interesting question-- what if we actually want to statically compile some, but not all, modules? Maybe we want a dedicated proxy/balancer:

./configure --enable-mods-shared=all --with-mpm=prefork \
  --disable-deflate --enable-proxy=static \
  --enable-proxy-ajp=static --enable-proxy-balancer=static
make; make install
/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -l
Compiled in modules:
  core.c
  mod_proxy.c
  mod_proxy_ajp.c
  mod_proxy_balancer.c
  prefork.c
  http_core.c
  mod_so.c

And that's what we are looking for. We'll need to get SSL on this puppy, but it's bed time, so go to sleep.