Setting up Apache 2 on VPS

[devorem]

I downloaded and extracted the files for Apache 2 on my VPS system. When I try to run the "configure" script to configure the source tree, I get the following output:

[root@******* httpd-2.0.50]# ./configure
checking for chosen layout... Apache
checking for working mkdir -p... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library ...
checking for APR... reconfig
configuring package in srclib/apr now
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
Configuring APR library
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for working mkdir -p... yes
APR Version: 0.9.5
checking for chosen layout... apr
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
configure failed for srclib/apr

I think the problem centers around the error:
"configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH"
but I'm not sure what to do about it.

Any suggestions?