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arnorhs
Asked: 2011-02-26 18:05:09 +0800 CST

Is there a way to install Apache Bench (ab) without installing apache

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Can you provide instuctions on how to install ab on a fedora distro with or without installing the apache web server? With yum or compiling from source.

linux yum apache-2.2 ab

4 Answers

  1. On my CentOS 6.2, this worked:

    sudo yum install httpd-tools
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  2. Best Answer

    Install apr-util(need to run ab):

    yum install apr-util

    Install yum-utils:

    yum install yum-utils

    Download httpd an extract ab:

    mkdir ~/httpd
cd ~/httpd
yumdownloader httpd
rpm2cpio httpd-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3.i386.rpm | cpio -idmv
mv usr/bin/ab /usr/bin/ab
cd ~
rm -rf ~/httpd

    Run ab:

    ab http://google.ru/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
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  3. This should help you. It depends upon on Apache Portable Runtime library and APR-util library

    http://code.google.com/p/apachebench-standalone/wiki/HowToBuild

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  4. For those who came here looking for Apache Benchmark (ab) binary, you should know that ab can be slow sometimes (testing nginx for example). Also, it requires apr-util to be installed (with sudo), and there is no standalone binary to download.

    Instead, I'd recommend an alternative - wrk - it is faster and requires no dependencies:

    https://github.com/wg/wrk

    (Or the GO variant: https://github.com/tsliwowicz/go-wrk )

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