Re: [LUG] Upgrading Apache on Red Hat 9

[alan <amd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2005.01.06 09:43 Chycor Ltd wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Happy new year to all. I am a new user to the DCLUG and we are
> starting out
> in the UNIX world.
>
> We have recently purchased a dedicated server with a default install
> of Red
> Hat 9. The default configuration on Red Hat 9 is Apache 2.0.40/openSSL
> 2.0.40 with PHP 4.2.2.
>
> We now wish to upgrade apache to 2.0.50+ and PHP 4.3.10 but are unsure
> how
> we can go about this with minimal disruption.
>
> Can anyone recommend a guide to installing this with a view to keeping
> the
> existing apache installation intact while we install and configure the
> later
> version independently. The primary reason being that this is a live
> production web server.

Hi Philip,

Here is a guide to upgrading php.

http://forum.ev1servers.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51605

You probably don't have yum on RH9 unless you install it yourself, so 
you can try using up2date for the apache update or just wget the rpms 
directly to your server and install away. Just back up your httpd.conf 
to be safe. Running 2 instances of apache would be quite tricky and its 
not as if you are going from 1.3 to 2.0.50 so the httpd.conf will be ok 
as is.

run
up2date apache-x.x.x
adding your required version numbers for the x's

When its done, restart apache ( service httpd restart)

If you man up2date, there are options available for keeping a rollback 
available when upgrading packages, which is handy, but it does require 
disk space of course.

Regards

alan

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