apache upgrade

epsas at inflicted.net epsas at inflicted.net
Fri Jan 11 02:49:57 PST 2002


A production web server should always use custom compiled versions of Apache/MySQL.  Using Redhat's (or, for that matter, anyone else's) RPM is asking for trouble.  As far as installing software goes - /usr/local/ is the place to dump local packages.  /opt is a SuSe/Solaris convention, not Redhat iirc.


> If you want to install software from non-RPM sources, I highly suggest not
> installing it anywhere inside of /usr because it will get mixed up with your
> RPM system.  I usually install extra software in /opt/softwarename, or
> sometimes /usr/local/bin if it is very small.
> 
> However, for Apache you don't need to use *.tar.gz files.  Red Hat packages
> the latest version of Apache in their Red Hat Rawhide, a place where they
> put the cutting edge latest versions of their packages.  You can find
> Rawhide on most Red Hat mirrors.  This URL is to the latest version of
> Rawhide Apache RPM.  It may require upgrades of many other Red Hat packages
> if RPM compiles about dependencies.  You will find these upgraded
> dependencies in Rawhide too.
> 



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