How To Install mod_http2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mod_http2.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mod_http2.x86_64 is module implementing HTTP/2 for Apache 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mod_http2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mod_http2.x86_64`

The mod_h2 Apache httpd module implements the HTTP2 protocol (h2+h2c) on top of libnghttp2 for httpd 2.4 servers.

We can use yum to install mod_http2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mod_http2.x86_64.

Install mod_http2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mod_http2.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mod_http2.x86_64

How To Uninstall mod_http2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mod_http2.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mod_http2.x86_64

mod_http2.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/10-h2.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/10-proxy_h2.conf
/usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_http2.so
/usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_http2.so
/usr/share/doc/mod_http2-1.15.19
/usr/share/doc/mod_http2-1.15.19/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mod_http2-1.15.19/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mod_http2-1.15.19/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/mod_http2-1.15.19
/usr/share/licenses/mod_http2-1.15.19/LICENSE

References

mod_http2.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mod_http2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.