Throughout the book, unless mentioned otherwise, we assume that all the sources are downloaded and built in the directory /home/stas/src/. If you follow the same convention, you need only to replace stas with your username.

As you will learn in Chapter 12, most mod_perl users run one plain Apache server and one mod_perl-enabled Apache server on the same machine. We usually install these into the directories /home/httpd/httpd_docs and /home/httpd/httpd_perl, respectively.