apache upgrade

[R Scott Belford]

So, let's see, despite the fact that their distribution has been 
successfully sold to "production" customers for years, using their RPM 
is asking for trouble.  Specifically, what kind of trouble is one asking 
for by using Redhat's apache RPM?  I'm still wondering what's so 
insecure about webmin which you insisted was trouble weeks ago.  Sharing 
knowledge is helpful, spreading FUD without evidence/documentation is 
not.  With regards to where to install apache should you choose to roll 
your own, I like Warren's suggestion of /opt/[program name]  There is no 
rule about where to install packages.

scott

On Friday, January 11, 2002, at 12:49  AM, epsas at inflicted.net wrote:

> 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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